Sunday, October 28, 2012

My Feed

The way that this book, Feed, actually portrays the feed is completely negative.  The language itself bothers me in the fact that it is just all slang that diminishes the English language.  Also, the corporations controlling the feed to nothing to change this or help people like Violet who are hurt by the feed.  Not to mention that the feed completely desensitizes us as humans.  Titus isn't even sad when Violet dies.  This is not an okay reaction for a boyfriend to have when his girlfriend dies! But the seemingly normal part of the feed, the advertisements, games, and T.V., are personalized and some-what invasive. 
Thinking of something in my brain that actually advertises directly to me would be strange.  I think it would be bad for me because I don't have much will power when it comes to cools things I can buy.  I'm really lazy, so it would be easier for me to spend money when I don't even have to leave my bed.  My feed would probably have lots of advertisements for random gadgets that aren't necessary because I get distracted and like toys.  Unfortunately, this would make me spend more money and less time on School™.  Anyone else think that corporations owning school or clouds is strange?
Anyway, I think my feed would have a lot of soccer related stuff too.  I could shop for cleats for hours if I had the money.  Speaking of soccer, does the feed take away physical sports?   If so, count me in on the resistance.  I think the feed has many advantages, such as easy access to information, promotes shopping, and instant communication, but there are drawbacks as well.  There would be hardly any face-to-face communication, people would become "dumber" from less need to remember things, and it isolates people who cannot afford the feed.
Of course, there are more advantages and disadvantages than the ones I have mentioned, but I think in the end, the feed should be resisted.  Privacy will no longer exist and our world would completely change, mostly for the worse.  There are many advances we could make with the feed, but think about the ones we could miss because a machine in our brain does all the thinking we need.

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