Dystopian World In M. T. Anderson's Feed

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It is a habit for the older generation to compare today’s society to their own, and often time, it is not in the favor of the youth. A prominent though is that the current generation is being corrupted by technology and because of it are at a disadvantage intellectual. One certain critic, Mark Bauerlein, in his book, The Dumbest Generation, makes a bold claim that anyone under thirty are part of a generation dumber than any before. However, studies show a different trend. Technology is not lowering intelligence but changing the way people learn. Because of the influence of the digital world, the current generation has shift to a new way of learning that in no way make them dumber.

Pollution has always been an issue within our society. Derrick Jenson and Stephanie McMillan as well as Michael Pollan have all written articles about the issues in our environment and the effects of pollution. We are causing an increasing amount of pollution as time goes on. Virtually everything we do causes some form of damage to the environment and it seems that regardless of how much we want to fix this issue we are making no progress towards a solution. Based on their articles “As The World Burns” and Pollans article “Why Bother” these authors have similar views and yet contrast on many points.

Along with the progression of society, major advances have been made in hundreds of different fields — particularly technology. Controversy has risen, and debates ensued over whether today's young Americans are really “the dumbest generation,” due to their “money, media, e-gadgets, and career plans” [Source A]. While advances have been made, they have brought with them resources to benefit off of, and ultimately assist in the overall intellect and intelligence of the human race.

humanity due to factors such as war, famine and poverty criticize current global issues while also

There are current events occurring in the United States that has given us the feeling as if we are living in a dystopian novel. People are living in fear and many have their lives controlled by what is going on. From having new technology control our lives, from having robots taking over jobs, and hiding our true identify, the United States has become a place in where many do not desire to live in anymore.

What exactly is a dystopia, and how is it relevant today? E.M. Forster’s The Machine Stops uses a dystopian society to show how one lives effortlessly, lacking knowledge of other places, in order to show that the world will never be perfect, even if it may seem so. A society whose citizens are kept ignorant and lazy, unknowing that they are being controlled, unfit to act if they did, all hidden under the guise of a perfect utopian haven, just as the one seen in The Machine Stops, could be becoming a very real possibility. There is a rational concern about this happening in today’s world that is shared by many, and with good reason. Dystopian worlds are often seen as fictitious, though this may not be the case in the

Technology has always been seen as a good thing because it makes life a little easier and can get things done quicker. However as the years goes by technology is advancing quicker and quicker and as it advances people start to become more and more dependent on it. In Anderson’s novel the Feed he tells the story of a failing futuristic society were everyone is dependent on feeds that are implanted into their brains at a very young age. These predictions that Anderson males in the book are valid because of how similar this futuristic world is to our own world today.

The book "Feed" by M.T. Anderson is a book about the distant future. The book talks about the effects of technology and advertising on consumerism. "Feed" also explains what the living conditions are like and how the world has been affected by the changes that are already beginning today. One thing that annoyed me about the book Feed was that it was somewhat realistic. This annoyed me because people were losing basic skills such as reading and writing and because people were being ruled by advertisements and trying to be cool.

Dystopias are a way to view our world from a different perspective. These dystopian stories can attract people in different ways, and for those who read these stories to engage them into a deeper thought about the lack of emotions in today’s society; coincide with the similarity among dystopian stories that illustrate repressed emotions, which can create a sense of insecurity, give different ideas of interactions, and mind opening overall.

In the futuristic world M.T Anderson creates in Feed, the misuse of technology is a problem the world faces. The novel Feed describes how the world could be in the future if humans let technology rule their lives. Anderson wants the reader to realize the effect technology has on our lives, and he also wants us to understand how we are being controlled and manipulated by media. Therefore, Anderson, fearing that one day technology will surpass humanity by creating a society of idiots like in the novel Feed, warns the reader from the future our society might face if we don’t make a change soon.

By definition, a dystopia is “an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one” (Oxford Dictionary). However, it may not be so far from nonfiction as had been thought. The modern United States is starting to express traits that classify a dystopia, such as dehumanization, individuality suppression, and the ever-growing gap between upper and lower class. The United States is heading down the path of becoming a dystopian society.

M.T. Anderson’s Feed satirizes a dystopian society that is ruled by technology. The people are considered consumers first and humans second. The main characters, Titus and Violet, along with seventy-five percent of the population, have chips implanted into their brains so that they are connected to the Feed, an advanced form of the internet. The company that created the chips, FeedTech, monitors people’s thoughts in order to create consumer profiles on them and send the mental equivalent of pop-up ads. This civilization, while technologically advanced, causes mass devastation to the environment and to the people. However, some of the people, like Titus’s friends, believe that the advantages of the technology outweigh the wreckage of the world, so the destruction goes unnoticed by the population. In the people’s eyes, technology’s importance overshadows the problems that plague the earth. This causes the people to lose their compassion towards their habitat. In the novel, Anderson illustrates how the society has used technology to

A dystopian society, usually illusory, is the reverse of an idyllic utopia: it is generally tyrannical and inhibited. Dystopian societies mirror our future- they are usually a hyperbolic familiar society with satirical exaggeration. This kind of literature is written to amend other people 's idea of the kind of society they should thrive for. As well as that, they are written to express their concerns about the future and humanity. Societies of this nature appear in many works of fiction, predominantly in novels set in a speculative future. Dystopian culture is often mused by societal collapse, dehumanization, poverty, and deprivation.

Pollution has become a prevalent issue worldwide and has begun to affect the air used to breathe, the soil used to grow food, and the water used to drink. All of these effects result in commonly occurring destruction of health and wildlife that one may have seen on the news or heard from peers. In order to live, one needs food, water, clothing, and shelter. If the water and food that society consumes gets contaminated, a major component of life has been eradicated, which can only have negative consequences. If more people are educated as to what effects the environment, the world has a chance to counteract the effects of pollution. The main causes of pollution are the burning of fossil fuels such as with car exhausts, littering as a result of societal norms and laziness, and factory waste as a result of lax waste regulation, and can result in mass destruction of the environment and catastrophic effects on the everyday lives of contemporary people.