----- Original Message -----
From: "Gord Sellar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 10:03 PM
Subject: Re: Electoral College
> At 12:13 AM -0400 14/11/2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >To take the analogy further. I can
> >infact differentiate two structures (bush and gore) quite well if I look
at
> >the entire image but if I try to differentiate bush and gore in the liver
and
> >the lungs and the brain I get less signal in each division but no
diminution
> >in noise. If I then go to smaller and smaller struuctures like the
> >hypothalamus and the basal ganglia (like going down to counties in the
vote)
> >the problem becomes worse not better.
>
> Okay, I'm not sure I understand your analogy completely but I am gonna try
> to apply some of it anyway. Wouldn't the analogy applied to the argument
> be that those critics of the electoral college are saying that if you
> choose to view the CT-scan or X-Ray though a computer program that
> coarse-grains it, you will have more trouble seeing clearly?
>
> It's not as if this is a physical thing we are looking at, after all.
Well,
> it is, in that we have a collection of physical objects that more or less
> are supposed to embody the will of the people -- the ballots.
I suppose everyone picks a metaphor from their own experience.
Not that metaphors convey info with much accuracy, power perhaps, metaphors
do have eloquence on their side.
xponent
rob
