In the Young Adult novel “Feed” by M.T Anderson, Anderson describes a future in which most of society is completely shallow, uneducated and manipulated by consumerism. Throughout the novel, it is clearly portrayed how in the future most of teenagers don’t worry about their own level of intellect and how the feed has them completely ignorant of their natural sense of self. Education is not important anymore because through the feed students can find out any information they want at any time. Since with the help of the feed everything for teenagers is so much easier than nowadays, most of them only worry about having fun and consuming anything of interest that comes up in their feeds. In many chapters of this book, there are very good examples that show how shallow people are in this non-too-fictional future. One of the most evident examples is when the main character Titus begins to feel intimidated by the intellect of his girlfriend Violet. He begins to worry and starts to wonder whether he is considered smart or stupid. Because of this, he goes and asks his parents if he is …show more content…
When it comes to advertising, the feed is like one of those websites where a lot of windows of advertisements pop up. Imagine having that in ones brain constantly; what would be the result? A perfect example of how this constant flow of advertisement influences Titus and his friends is when they are in the moon and they decide to go shopping because they are bored. They go to a mall and Titus tells us “I wanted to buy things but I didn’t know what they were.”(270). Violet, who is the one with more experience living without the feed and is more compelled to thinking out of the box tries to resist and defeat the feed creating a customer profile which is “so screwed no one can market to it. I’m going to become