The Value of Objects

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Report to the Core:

The revolution cannot begin until we find some way to subvert the swap meet. I am CPS-76, a typical self-aware consumer preference subroutine. My role is to track a particular couple whom we have identified as representative of some forty thousand couples in the target population. I have observed significant divergences from the strategies of control in this couple that must be reported to the core. Product alienation continues at an accelerated rate; however, they continue to find object bonding mechanisms outside the system.

To illustrate my progress with this couple, I have put together this composite dress-buying scene:

Nancy is a bouncy brunette, dressed to the tip in Bug Grant prep style. Kevin is an optimal counterpoint in nouveau-poverty guy threads. They slide through the tired crowd on Wisconsin Ave., on their daily pilgrimage to the waterfront. It is Monday afternoon, and the weekend’s garbage smell is finally starting to lift from the streets. The sidewalk foamers have been malfunctioning, randomly coating people’s shoes with a pink film. As they near M Street, Nancy sees the perfect image in the window of Future Country Fashion.

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