Feed - Visual Essay - Anti-Consumerism

^ Made me laugh, good explanation

In Feed, consumerism and anti-consumerism are big themes. The feed is the ultimate corporate weapon for control. The Feed related companies want you to buy, buy, buy so they can make a gigantic amount of money. Feedlink, OnFeed, and American Feedware are reaping profits from the ignorance of the masses*. Most Americans in this story were raised with the feed and don't know how good life is without it. Sure, the feed has it's perks, but the pop-ups would suck.

Consumerism/anti-consumerism are the most prominent themes in the whole book. Right now, our corporations are creating an army of consumer whores that will buy their junk.
This is where I think Anderson could have gotten his inspiration to write Feed.

Take that Starbucks!

V

*I hear people saying "It's scary that this could be our future." This isn't our future, this is our present.

Feed Post #2

"Missing the Feed" (p.47). What does this chapter say about corporations?

This chapter, to me, shows that Titus acknowledges that the corporations are evil and bad. However, he admits that even if everyone thought so and tried to do something about it, the companies control everything. Most people with the feed wouldn't know what to do if it was gone. They wouldn't know how to do anything and the economy would collapse. In short, this chapter is about corporate fascism.

What are the main themes of "Eden?" How are they relevant today? Why is it titled "Eden?" What do we learn about Titus and Violet? What questions are raised in "Eden?"

The main themes in the chapter Eden are about reliance on technology. This connects to a lot of the people in my generation. I am using technology right now, and I'm relying on this to get a good grade. Titus and Violet seem to have more of a grip on what they are doing without the feed. Eden refers to the Garden of Eden in the bible, which is a paradise. Anderson is conveying that life without the Feed is much better than life with the Feed.

The author dedicates the book "to those who resist the feed." What does he mean by this?...(Final Prompt)

Anderson means people who are not technology reliant and people who are anti-consumeristic (non-conformists.) The feed, in real life, is a mix of technology and consumerism. You resist "the feed" by not falling for advertisements and by dodging the aura of stupidity surrounding them. You resist it by not conforming to what the corporations are trying to make you. Break the mold that the corporations create and you will be "resisting the feed."