Why censorship and fake news cause entropy (disorder) and achieves the opposite

 

Jim Khalili, the famous physicist, says that you cannot separate information from reality. James Gleick wrote that information, like matter and energy, cannot be destroyed. Information is there when it is thought, spoken and described. Information is not just a story. Jeremy Campbell, in his book 'Grammatical Man' wrote: In its most familiar sense, information today is news, intelligence, facts and ideas that are needed and passed on as knowledge. But a more active and constructive meaning as something that gives a certain shape or character to matter, or to mind; a force that shapes behaviour, trains, instructs, inspires and guides. Nature must be interpreted as matter, energy and information. Information reduces uncertainty and increases probabilities. Information reduces entropy, also known as disorder. But what do politicians do? They try to destroy information by censoring it. For thousands of years attempts have been made to censor the 'word' of nature and people. Books were burnt, but people who wrote down or told unwelcome information were also burnt on the funeral pyres of hypocrisy. And now Europe and even Switzerland have blocked the news channel Russia Today. It is assumed that in this way the information spread by this Russian media cannot reach the populations of pro-Ukrainian countries. This, of course, is untrue. Again, the rules of physics apply; the information spread by RT is there, is part of reality, even if you wish it were not. But what does this mean for those countries that make geopolitical decisions based on only part of the relevant information? Can they still make the right, careful decisions? You already know the answer: NO. Because the laws of information cannot be broken by a politicised elite and an uninformed crowd, people make the wrong decisions, regardless of their opinions. This means by definition an information deficit and thus 'disorder', entropy for all. Politicians think they are above the laws of nature and therefore there is disorder. I cannot explain this in simpler terms. To end the war in Ukraine ALL information is important. Russia's call to honour the Minsk Accords is censored and the big mouths of Ursula von der Leyen and President Joe Biden are widely reported by newspapers and online mainstream media. That this will lead to further destabilisation if not believed or refused to be believed, because they will not acknowledge this blog as relevant information either. So we are going down because of 'stupidity', arrogance and self-conceit. Not from blindness, but from the refusal to see.