HomeWork 12: Feed A

By looking at feed I think that it is not on course to define the current style of today's teenagers. I agree that is shows that not just teenagers but parents are sucked into this whole digital thing too. I feel that the author is adding too much and too little information into this allegory.

Today teens don't have the knowledge that would be considered smart, like not knowing history and other this that are just stupid and makes us more like monsters. In the book it shows a good representation of that, by having people get lesions (which is like plastic surgery, the more you have the better you look), and people not taking the past as serious as they should (like not knowing about the revolutionary war or civil war). The images of a great place is either in a mall, or through the feed, or even dying plants/trees since there aren't many left. Everything i this world is twisted and controlled like how feed shows us.

Even if everything is controlled like that it is not the that extreme. Even though we as humans has been controlled by others by draining our knowledge, we don't know if everything is true, since history is not all that is written in black and white. Even our memories are not completely accurate and that there is more that happened at the time and place then one can read off a text book. People don't always write everything down, so history can never be trusted. In this world plants are going to die one way or another, either by our own hands and ripping them our of the ground and replacing them with machines or by the changing climate or world which we have polluted with our toxic and lies. (recycling->chemical dump in lakes and rivers->killing plants and wild life<-humans don't know this so they are still happy they think they are doing the right thing). The feed isn't have is making us dumber it is the adults who make the stuff and control our lives from birth to death. We as humans never had a choice to choose and these devices only amplify they controlling powers by allowing us to make a fake world of our own: like a second life. Then we as humans teach and control other humans as a endless cycle of pain and sadness: or it could be a endless pain of fake happiness.

In this world the "feed" is not doing this to us but a different source, which we can never get rid of, it is coming from humans, and their need to expand and control.