Saturday, April 25, 2009

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 We are inheritors to an outdated age, not one of war, not one of technology, not one of strength.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.

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