More on that Laws Of Form (M&D spoiler 615)

[Michael McAulay]

First of all, a hearty mea culpa - or my bad, if you prefer.  I
misremembered the page number of the LOF ref in M&D.  It's actually on
page 615:

"To rule forever," continues the Chinaman, later, "it is necessary only
to create, among the people one would rule, what we call...Bad History.
Nothing will produce Bad History more directly nor brutally, than
drawing a Line, in particular a Right Line, the very Shape of Contempt,
through the midst of a People, - to create thus a Distinction betwixt
'em, - 'tis the first stroke. - All else will follow as if predestin'd,
unto War and Devastation.

Compare with the first sentence of Laws Of Form:

We take as given the idea of distinction and the idea of indication, and
that we cannot make an indication without drawing a distinction.

Further on in LOF - although this probably falls under the rubric of
Kute Korrespondences - it's interesting to note Spencer-Brown's use of
the term "state."  As in "let a state distinguished by the distinction
be marked with a mark ( | ) of distinction."  This strikes me as exactly
the kind of thing that would catch TP's eye.  It is a State boundary
after all that our heroes are demarking.

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Mike McAulay
Sr. Engineer
3DO