" We enter a time of calamity" What does this mean? Write about your response to it. 

My response to this is simple. NO KIDDING!! The second that the feed entered the brain of the first person an age of calamity had begun. Because of the fact that people just aren't smart anymore, that is not good. Because thinking's optional, because the world is being destroyed and the people don't care. Because people can be hacked, I mean what's with that.

Comparison of Life Before the Feed

In the book Titus is saying that the feed is now actually a part of him. That the net is actually a part of him now. Prior to what these people are not the ones truly controlling the feed, but it is rather the other way around. The feed is all that matters in their lives. The feed determines if you can get a job and it is all that you learn about in "school".The feed rules all. Maybe there is one thing similar to the feed, something that is essential to life. It's called a lung.

Dude

The only good explanation I can think of for this word is that it is the past. We always criticize the people older than us because they use words or phrases that we consider outdated. What we don,t seem to realize is that there will come a day that the words we use, the slang, will also be words of the past.

We have inherited an age of chaos and order, of destruction and creation. We are the heirs to an age of hypocrisy, of lies, of contradictions. We are inheritors to progress, and yet continue to fall back into barbaric practices. We are inheritors to an outdated age, not one of war, not one of technology, not one of strength. No, we are inheritors of the age of Man,  the age of ends.

Feed is a book that  represents this notion. It is a representation through literature of the things human kind are capable of,the destruction that mankind is capable of. The destruction of the moon, the destruction of a government based society, the destruction of the world, the destruction of the human race. It's all there. The moon is a trash heap, the world run by the big corporation, the world is crumbling, and what used to be known as humans now have no right to that name. Actually, excluding the whole moon thing, a world like this, a world of destruction is not so far off. 

The worst thing that the book is getting at in this book is the fact that after reading it it gets hard to call them human, because except for Violet, all the main characters, are mindless, meaningless...worthless. Simply tools to keep the corporations happy. You know the saying man or machine? In this case there really isn't a difference.