The theme that I chose for my visual essay is consumerism. The world is built off consumerism, the best things in life are free yeah right tell that to MTV cribs. The pictures I chose for this theme represent how America has become the land of consumption, I mean its crazy, the things that are sold and even more crazy the things we buy. The picture of the American flag shows that consumerism has basically taken over America, at this rate were going to be like feed and instead of learning history or the "dead" languages, we'll be learning how to shop. I think the picture that best represents Feed is the one with the guy and all those ads around his head, its like Feed but instead of the ads on the outside of his head they would be on the inside, and this picture shows the craziness of the world. There are may themes in Feed that connect and relate to consumerism like, media, technology, individuality, ect. And I think reading this book has made me really think of how consumerism effects us. Before when I thought of consumerism I just thought yeah whatever we buy a lot of crap that we don't need, but if the world was to end up like Feed then wow we would have bigger problems. Even though I'm still going to buy things I don't really need I'll probably just by less of it.
Monday, May 4, 2009
Friday, May 1, 2009
Chat Stew... mmmmm meaty
If someone asked a teenager to not use any technology like, cell phone, computer, ect. They would probably say that they would die with out technology. When in Feed people would probably actually die without there Feeds. M.T Anderson dedicates his book "to those who resist the feed", which sounds kind of creepy but when you think of what it means it makes more sense. Because in are life the feed is the media, and some may not want to admit it but it is hard to resist. I guess the ways you can resist it is by not listing or "supporting" advertisements the media puts out there, and not purchasing stupid things like fake birds. Just like it is now, people in feed like to keep up with the latest trends which could be a disadvantage of resisting the feed/ media, because you might feel different or out of place because of how everyone looks around you. Another disadvantage of having a feed is described when Violet says that her dad didn't get a job because he didn't have a feed. To tell you the truth I don't really know how I resist the feed, because if I was in the time setting of the book I would probably want a feed cause all my friends have one and its easier to communicate with them and da da da, like myspace and facebook. If Feed was the future of our society I wouldn't really be surprised, because it feels like sooner or later a big robot Co. is going to take over the world I mean it was kind of disturbing to think that the Feed actually controlled their bodies, like when Violet's arms or legs would just stop working and their skin was falling off ughhh. But anyways, yeah the United States is going to end up like Ashley's pictures thinking where so cool cause are skin is falling off.
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