Resist the Feed.
Be Violet. Because the more you listen to the Feed, the more you succumb to the concept of letting the mass government take control of who you are. There's a sense of individuality that comes with being a human being, and its a beautiful complexity that is only preserved in the crevices of the human mind. When the Feed takes over, it takes the individuality of a human being and turns him into a mindless consumer.
Think about it like the thought experiment in philosophy "The Happiness Machine." When you step into the machine, all of your fantasies and dreams come true. All feelings of victory, accomplishment, zen, euphoria, all are electronically transmitted into you. You are free to leave the machine at any time, but you return to the world and realize the senses of happiness that you experience are nothing more than a silhouette.
Logically, you should enter the machine. One of the ultimate goals of human kind is to be happy and satisfied with the life you live. However, reasonably, you shouldn't. The false sense of happiness is only artificial, and as a result, it's not the true sense of happiness that you spend your entire life searching for and hoping to find.
This is the same logic with a Feed. There's an individuality to being open and creative with the way you sculpt your personality. It's almost a metaphor to what Violet was doing to resist the Feed in trying to create the ultimate consumer profile. She was trying to turn her personality into a rainbow of colors, representing the human emotion of curiosity and willingness to change.
When you succumb to the Feed, you lose your ability to formulate ideals without any sort of internal influence. When someone starts telling you what you want, and you listen, all of a sudden you don't need to think or make decisions because there's someone out there doing it for you. Thus, human creativity falls short and you're left an empty shell because you have no capacity of listening and forming your own opinion.
So how do you fight the Feed? Don't get a Feed. It's a radical concept, but the only true way of avoiding the Feed completely is to not be exposed to it whatsoever. Because the Feed is so enticing, it's almost a poison, there being so many beautiful features of the device it becomes impossible to avoid. The only true way to form your own opinions and avoid mass corporate influence on your decisions and opinions is to not be exposed to the Feed altogether. Once you become a part of the Feed, the only true way is to think like Violet: ignore it, and keep your mind open. Once the mind conforms, there's no getting out.
Look at what Titus did to Violet. That's why you fight the Feed.
Monday, March 23, 2015
A Customized "Feed" - Part One
My consumer profile reflected in the novel 'Feed' would be quite different from many other consumers. Unlike a lot of people my age, I don't have a desire to have something at the very second that I want it. Instead, I'm patient, and I can usually wait for some sort of object, looking more towards the past than to the future.
My feed would be advertising a lot of music. I spend a lot of time listening to all different genres of music, and as a result, there would be a large amount of audio streaming through my feed. As well, it would transmit advertisements for some of my personal hobbies, like Cardfight!! Vanguard and poetry readings, and would be a lot for swimming, the second-most important part of my life.
There would be advertisements for new aquatic facilities, new speedsuits, new tech suits and speedos, as well as new brands of goggles, new lines of goggles that fit my particular swimming style and methods; there would be opening days for concerts reflecting my favorite rap artists and metal groups, and a lot of feed streaming towards sports and athletics.
The interesting part of these is most of these advertisements are already streaming when I browse the internet. When I enter my product placements into coretcg.com, or when I buy a speed suit from swim outlet, automatically the transmissions from my product purchases tell people what I like and what I want to buy. Thus, there are already a ton of advertisements in my face from card shops and swimming sites.
My visual representation of a feed is almost mirrored in the way I browse the internet and place product orders, because the computers that we use already tend to read the things we purchase and as a result know what we want. We don't need a microchip in our brains because the things we enter into a search engine and the results we click on when they appear already tell the computer the things we want, and the things we're most likely to buy.
We don't have the microchips yet because the government has no way of making a professional instigation for forcing installation of chips into our brains. But there's nothing wrong with being skeptical, as the technological advancements in the realm of media and social advertising are quickly increasing at a very rapid rate. We aren't interrupted with our own 'Feeds' yet, but the mass corporations of the world have a solid understanding of the people we are based solely off our search engines and virtual swipes of the credit card.
My feed would be advertising a lot of music. I spend a lot of time listening to all different genres of music, and as a result, there would be a large amount of audio streaming through my feed. As well, it would transmit advertisements for some of my personal hobbies, like Cardfight!! Vanguard and poetry readings, and would be a lot for swimming, the second-most important part of my life.
There would be advertisements for new aquatic facilities, new speedsuits, new tech suits and speedos, as well as new brands of goggles, new lines of goggles that fit my particular swimming style and methods; there would be opening days for concerts reflecting my favorite rap artists and metal groups, and a lot of feed streaming towards sports and athletics.
The interesting part of these is most of these advertisements are already streaming when I browse the internet. When I enter my product placements into coretcg.com, or when I buy a speed suit from swim outlet, automatically the transmissions from my product purchases tell people what I like and what I want to buy. Thus, there are already a ton of advertisements in my face from card shops and swimming sites.
My visual representation of a feed is almost mirrored in the way I browse the internet and place product orders, because the computers that we use already tend to read the things we purchase and as a result know what we want. We don't need a microchip in our brains because the things we enter into a search engine and the results we click on when they appear already tell the computer the things we want, and the things we're most likely to buy.
We don't have the microchips yet because the government has no way of making a professional instigation for forcing installation of chips into our brains. But there's nothing wrong with being skeptical, as the technological advancements in the realm of media and social advertising are quickly increasing at a very rapid rate. We aren't interrupted with our own 'Feeds' yet, but the mass corporations of the world have a solid understanding of the people we are based solely off our search engines and virtual swipes of the credit card.
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