Feed

Feed
7/7/2009
Over the course of my life, I’ve read many books. Ever since I was little, I have always thirsted for knowledge. I don’t know why, I guess that it just runs in the family. My whole family is book readers. My parents are both professors and they both really love to read. When I was little, my parents would compete with us on who can read Harry Potter first or how much books we can read during the course of the summer. They loved to read, and I guess it got passed on to me.
Through my life, there’ve been a lot of important book to me. The first book I’ve ever read, the book that made me cry and cry right after I read it, the book that made left me in shock, and many on. To pick the book that made the most impact on me is really difficult for me, but from the top ten list is a book that is called “Feed”. “Feed” is a book that I just read a few months ago. The main impact that “Feed” made to me is that it gave me a new view. Through deep ways, “Feed” talks about the changing world and what’s wrong with it. I’ve always knew that the world has serious problems, but never have I felt so much for it.
“Feed” tells the story of a couple of kids in the far away scientific fiction future. Through playful ways, they express the concerns for the real world as it is. The main focus of this book revolves around the dangers of propaganda affecting the whole world. In the book, a device called Feed is invented. Feed is a computer system that is put in the brain that a lot of people have in the future. Because of Feed, schools are no longer for teaching academics but rather for teaching how to use Feed. Feed has made a major influence in the futuristic world. There’s supposed changes like the less need for school and the easier ways to shop around, but there’s also other changes that was not intentional like the lost ability to write and the whole society becoming dumber by the minute.
There are a lot of major problems in the future, like the low oxygen level in the air and the poor not being protected at all while the rich gets a lot more benefits. In the futuristic world, the world has gone into chaos while the rich, with their technologies try to hide the truth from the world. The people in that world are blind from the world. They are blinded by propaganda. They can’t think for themselves, they only do what the propagandas tell them to do. The propaganda is like a shepherd and the people are like domestic sheep. They can’t do anything for them self, but only get pushed around and fattened. That is how low they’ve sunk. A lot of experts all suspect this outcome for the human race. Man will someday build a machine strong enough to take of themselves, making the machine the dominant race. Even though that seems swell, one day it will cause problems, one day.
I was in shock the whole day after reading this book. The main character of this book, called Violet, at the end died because of her Feed malfunctioning and unable to move her body and then even breathe. I really fear this coming true, especially during my lifetime. I really think that it could come to that in the future, especially with the fast development on robotics. We, humans are a great race; we’ve invented the wheel and found fire. But sometimes our visions are just too far out. Hitler dreamed of ruling over the world, the Wrights brothers dreamed of flying, and Ford wanted to sell automobiles. But what has actually came out of these dreams, the Holocaust, bombers flying over the skies of London, terrorizing the civilians of London, and the environmental pollution problem that the world is now faced with. It just shows that if you dreamed too big, nothing good will come out of it. Dreaming is good, but dreaming of playing GOD, imposturous. Mankind, like all species has their limits. Dogs will never fly, cats will never dive, and sharks will never walk. It’s just the nature of things. You just can’t bend nature to your own will!
This book made me realize many things about the world that I’m in. Before, the facts about our environment were just numbers, but now, they’re something more. This book gave me the definition of extinction and pollution. This book moved me and made me realize that a better future is needed for mankind and nature alike. This book opened my eyes to the world.