Sunday, October 28, 2012

To be honest, though i loved the idea of the Feed and the implication it could cause, the way the author displays it seems rather dull.  I mean sure Titus and his friends were stupid, and what happened to Violet was not fair but come on come up with something new already!   The beginning of the book Titus just drones on and on about how boring his life is.  The common phrases and ways of the futuristic community are also displayed, and it sounded a bit clique.  The future according to the author is doomed to a world of stupid people if not careful, but mostly this situation would only happen if the rest of the world was as consumerist and technology obssessed as the United States or Europe is.  There are millions of people who haven't even heard of half of the stuff we use in our daily lives.  For example, people who live in North Korea still use technology from the 1970s, most of the technology is used by the government because they want to develop their own weapons against other nations.  You see what the author suggests through the feed simply will not happen.

In the context of the Feed itself, the author is obviosly negative towards the idea.  He displays the stupidity of the whole group plainly through their idiotic use of slang (especially with the adults like Titus' dad) and attitude towards life.  These people with the feed don't seem to have any real interest in live in general.  Their only interest is their own selfs, which is plainly seen through Titus' treatmen of Violet in the end of the book.