Feed Final Project Reflection Essay

My feed contains many things that have to do with pull a customer in with catchy frases and good logos. These things are mostly advertisements for materialistic things like ipods, cloth, phones and other goods. You can order almost anything you want off this feed, it is very easy to use and you would almost never have to leave your house. All these things are included because they are things that bring me and others alot of pleasure and I thought that this should be put into my feed for this reason. This shows that american culture is about consumerism and without it, it would not be the same america we know now. This feed basically defines the american culture because it shows what america is based on consumerism. This causes many social issues including making everyone reliant on technology and unable to think for themselfs. In a way it makes a person dumb to the extent that they can form their own opinion about many things. This is what makes it okay to resist because getting away for the it makes a person self reliant and able to be thoughtful.
Media and consumerism are two things that affect me in many way, but mostly through peer pressure. They influence me alot especally if I am in a place where there is alot of this consumerism around me, someplace like a mall. It makes me feel like I am missing out if I don't get anything. This also happen with popular culture because it involves peer presure which can affect anyone. All these things could contribute to reliance on technology which show that all these things do mold me as a person.
These things impact me alot as many of them mold me as a person. They define also in many ways because the things that I like can be influenced by the media. It shows that many of my habits are very much affected by the media and popular culture. Some of my personal habits such as singing my favorite tunes from commercials is part of this.
I believe there is a moral to the story "feed". It is the fact that with all the consumerism and reliance on technology going on, the ones resisting it are the ones going away or disappearing. Anderson conveys that the whole society has been taken over by the consumerism and reliance on technology which changed the people.
Without the feed the people in the story are not going to be the same at all. They are going to be the regular people from who happen to have advanced technology. Without the feed their consumerism slows down and their reliance on technology is not as high, but this didn't happen. The feed caused the decline in health of violet which made Titus by all those pants in the second to last chapter. This all leads to the ending which ends with a feed interlude with an ad suggesting "Everything must go", multiple times. This last statement I think means that violet has died from her malfunction and is gone.