Feed By M. T. Anderson Character Analysis

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Big Business: Feeding on the Consumer “The thing I hate about space is that you can feel how big and empty it is… ” In the novel “Feed” by M.T. Anderson, the near future world is living in a technological revolution. Everyone who is anyone is attached with a neural implant called the feed. The feed can connect your brain directly to the internet so you may have all of your desires delivered in milliseconds. Although there is a catch to this device: it is run by greedy corporations. The theme of “Feed” revolves around not believing everything that seems good is good. Throughout the story the feed has proven to overstep its boundaries and offer unwanted goods and services to its host. Pursuing this idea, the characters in the book still attend …show more content…

When a person lies down to sleep, they are greeted with ads, replacing our dreams. In the corner of your vision you will see the logo for some company trying reel you in for their next sale. Referring to the book, our main character Titus, becomes depressed and lets his mind wander to a site and before he realizes, Titus has purchased enough pants to last him a lifetime. The feed should not be able to pry on your emotions and take advantage of them for their own greed filled purposes. Hence, the feed is controlled by evil corporations and clutter our brains with useless advertisements to make us purchase unwanted items. This begs the questions, what does this mean for the human race? Our species is becoming dumber and less coherent to the world around them. In this time of a technological revolution, we need a societal revolution. The corporations have gone too far, and we need to rise against our modern day dystopia of a world we have become used to. They are manipulating the media in our world and causing a disruption in our world. Would you really want this in your brain under these circumstances? There is no end to all of the advertisements that these evil businesses push at you. After all you cannot install Ad-Block for your

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