Endless

There is a battle that has been raging since the dawn of society itself. Why, you may ask? Simply because the war is that of a person against society. Or in simpler terms, a war between individuality and conformity. 

-How  do the images I chose tell a story?

Every single image has a specialty significance, to me any ways. It is a story of an argument. Where some people think that to be a conformist is to be good, others take the other side, believing that being an individual is to be superior. Every single image has some connection to my theme.

-What is my message?

My message is that we are living a war right now. We are living in a battlefield where the opposing factions are right in front of our eyes. When the enemy can be your closest friend. We are fighting against everyone, and sometimes your enemy is even yourself. And the worst thing is that  this war wont stop until society itself comes to its end.

-Why I chose the images I chose?

Each image has significance to me. The first one is a picture about individuality. It is a representation of what it really means to be an individual. Not a person who tries to be different,but a person who is truly outside of society's reaches. The second picture is one expressing the power, both destructive and constructive, of a conformist society. The third is a picture expressing that sometimes even being an individual isn't the greatest thing and the fourth, explains that being a person who conforms to society is to be boring.

-What are the understandings and values of my themes?

I realized over the past year what it truly means to be an conformist and what it truly means to be an individualist. To be a conformist is to be a mindless slave to society.To have no mind, no true values. To be simply an animal that stands upright. However, to be an individualist is to be someone who has massive superiority complex. Who looks down on everyone. 

-How have I developed these?

I developed these through a year of observation of everyone and everything around me.

-How do I feel about them?

I feel it is best for a person to be neither and both.

" 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.