PATTERN RECOGNITION

PATTERN RECOGNITION

IMPERSONAL SPACE

Mandatory friendliness in shops. Monstrous.

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Beth Bentley and Ed Cotton
Dec 03, 2025
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“Please I beg of you, don’t do that to me.”

The internet’s having a field day with Target’s leaked 10-4 corporate memo.
There’s been ridicule, incredulity, a bit of existential sadness, some ennui.

Ever since this past Spring when I wrote about this Cultural Interregnum we’re living in (no longer where we were…but not yet where we’re going), my friends h…

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