Ignorance In Feed By M. T. Anderson

“… everyone is like, da da da, evil corporations, oh they’re so bad, we all say that, and we all know they control everything… who knows what evil s*** they’re up to” (Anderson 48). Feed by M.T. Anderson is about how Titus and his group of friends live in a very basic but advanced world. Everything is easy and simple through the feed, which is essentially a smartphone that is connected straight into their brain. They can look up things, message people, buy things, and get ads for whatever they could possibly want. Titus meets Violet, a girl who experienced the first part of her life away from the Feed, but is now trying to actively ignore the feed. The Feed is run by several big corporations who, as quoted above, run everything. Through the feeds, these companies cause problems for the general population, such as taking away free choice, and making them all generalized, keeping them blind to important information, and thus making them ignorant, and

The Feed corporations can also choose to leave out important information about the country. The Feed symbolizes ignorance. It is given to people when they are babies if their parents can afford them. These people grow up to be entirely dependent on the Feed and what it tells them. What the companies decide to show them. They only think about what the Feed is giving them. Therefore, people with the Feeds are ignorant, because they have no desire to search deeper into the country and the information provided. Violet and Titus were talking, and she said, “Like them never telling you it’s a republic and not a democracy” (Anderson 113). That seems like a pretty crucial part of the government that the Feed companies decided to omit from telling the Feed users. They are ignorant because they don’t know important information. This is another problem of a small group of people controlling a larger