Respond to the following(pg80-81) (TOO LONG TO WRITE OUT) relate this to marketing tactics in todays society. what is your "type"? what ads would you get if you had a feed? how would "chatting" affect modern day communication?
The passage says that they ( the corporations) are waiting to make you want things. You get ads on what your supposdly like, they try to figure out who you are and make you conform to one of their types. This is relatable to todays society in many ways. for example when they say that the corporations are waiting for you to want things they really are. they will send out ads and commercials about one product that a "cool" person likes or a age rewinding serum that will make you look ten yours younger. they label these things there waiting for you to want with not so true information. and as far as the targeting certain types of people the big companies do that. look through a target ad, they have very nice looking stuff for cheap, they try to copy the cool trends and market them because thats what the general population wants. i believe my type is a more vain type, clothes, makeup, all that girly crap. if i had a feed i would get ads that deal with animals probably, and uh make up, especially neon makeup, and uh jewelery and clothes. Im such a typical girl. I think chatting would affect modern day communication in that we wouldnt really truly communicate. communicating to me is actually face to face talking and if we chatted we would never really truly communicate.
We enter a time of "calamity" what does this mean?
In the book when the saying "we enter a time of calamity" is repeated it is the beginning of the official corrupting of the feeds. (an event resulting in great loss and misfortune, this is the definition of calamity) I find this definition very true to the text. the feed, to most people in the book would be a great lost and misfortune if they didnt have the feed, they rely on the feed twenty four seven! yet violet relaizes that the feed is bad, she seems to be the only one to realize this in the beginning, violet even tries to corrupt the feed and screw with the big corporations.
The author dedicates the book " to those that resist the feed." what does he mean by this? what is "the feed" in real life context, and how can it be resisted? what are the benifits and drawbacks of doing so? in what way do you "resist the feed?"
The author, to me, means that this book is dedicated to all those that do not give in to media and the worlds views and conform to fit in. the feed in real life context is every little thing that you do not think of yourself that can change your mind for the worst. like the media, tv, radio, internet, corrupt leaders, religion. he is referencing to those that think for themselves. it may be hard for "slower, less independant" people to resist the feed. i see people evry day that change themselves from class to class just to hang with new people, like really? that is really lame, and those are the people that cannot resist the feed. i dont think there is a certain way to resist it but to think for your damn self! the benifits of feeding into the feed are that youll "fit in" and youll usually be liked by more. the drawbacks are that you may not have as much advantages as the people who follow the feed, but it is better to go against it. I resist the feed by thinking for myself and investing things on myself, and i am the same person no matter who im with, i do not conform i have my own mind and my own opinions, which i credit for helping me resist the feed!
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