Feed Blog #1:"Everything must go."

I have already read and finished the book, and it pains me to know that this could very well be our future, we are fast approaching such systems everyday, and some of us, like the kids in the book, are too blinded to realize that we're barely in control of our own lives. We see everything as an opportunity to spend or buy just so we can be up to date or running tangent to the modern trends. Our lives now almost certainly revolve around advertisements, telling us what we need to live and be happy. An example, look at all of the medication ads, like for viagra and lipitor, etc., we are at the point when we're told to second guess or one up our doctors, telling them what we need to be healthy, versus the other way around. Anyway, on to more pressing matters...
"To all those who resist the feed."
Today, I imagine that the feed would generalize all the advertisements, in short. They're comprised of subliminal messages to encourage us to buy buy buy. Like Erin mentioned in class, there are people out there who's jobs are to make the product appeal to us, in the manner of music in the stores, to colors and environments that encourage us to purchase. It's fucked. I won't sugar coat it. To resist the feed I imagine is along the lines of sticking it to the man...I can think back to the book when it speaks multiple times about the riots and protests against the feed, now would be like someone either not listening or giving into the ads and promotions and what not. Sadly, as I've said many times, we buy into it. It's unfortunate that people take advantage of our need for stuff. Yeah, we have need for some of it, but these companies build off of it severely, almost hypnotizing people to buy their shit. In the book, to resist the feed is to not have one, or do as violet did and ensure that she was inapplicable in any consumer profile. The book's idea is fucked, and I'm sure that M.T. Anderson just gave all the big corporations ideas for the future...or maybe they're already starting!!!
Change Hair
Trends, unfortunately, play a large role in everyday life. They, well, celebrities, the bitches of the corporations, influence the trends and alert the general public that what they're doing is not good enough, we're not good enough, spend your way out of being miserable and unpopular because you don't have Hello Kitty lip gloss that runs for $50. BULL SHIT.You see the trend following more prominent in girls because we're so concerned with our appearance and have, tragically, a severe need to criticize every thing we think is a flaw on ourselves. da da da...We see this behavior in Calista and Quendy. The feed tells them whats hot, and like brainwashed little minions, they follow so they won't be left behind when the trends shift again in ten minutes. I pity them, despite the fact that they are fictitious characters. Trends change in the novel, when the corporations aren't raking in the dollars, and it's virtually the same in today's market. They exploit slave labor in other countries to decrease the amount of money that they would normally spend on their employees, and then sell the finished product at an inflated price to gain even more money. Our systems are, once again, fucked. Author dude probably wouldn't have come up with this book idea if it wasn't going on around him in front of his own eyes. We may not have feeds like they do, but right now, I can see at least five different advertisements.
Sucky Moon
The first words out of the books mouth totally tell us what's going on in this frightening novel. The language is already simplified, showing that the people in the book have a decreased capability to think for themselves. Slang takes up most of the conversations...they can't even use the right words because in School(TM) they're not taught educational things, they're taught how to utilize the feed... I imagine mostly the buying parts...But anyway, everything seems to have also been genericized*, meaning that it's no longer part of the current trends...goodness, this book has just made me think that if we continue on in this way, we're doomed. I may sound like a total wing-nut, but if one persons thought of it, it's likely that others have too.

*yes, I can make up my own words...