"Everything must go" (299). This is what we are left with at the ending
of the book. Could it be a double entendre or nothing more than the obvious
meaning, "Warehouse's Final Sales Event! Stock is just flying off the
shelves at prices so low you won't believe your feed! Everything must go!
Everything must go. Everything must go. Everything must go" (299). Now if
your me, you're thinking he's just tryna end the book with a dramatic effect,
what more could it mean? But, if you're a professor or someone who can't
believe the book ended, you're saying this definitely has two meanings!
So, what else could "everything must
go" mean? Well in the last chapter of the book Titus says, "Together,
the two crazy kids grow, have madcap escapades, and learn an important lesson
about love. They learn to resist the feed" (297-298). Titus finally wants to resist
the feed. It's too bad it took the death of Violet to wake him up to what's
actually going on. What's going on, you may ask? Consumerism being highly
prioritized over the importance of basic human life. Titus finally begins to
realize that something is wrong with how Feed manages his life.
What I believe M.T. Anderson was trying to point
across in "everything must go" is, you cannot have true change unless
you start over. In this case getting rid of the Feed. How do you do that
though? At first I wasn't sure on how this could be done, but then I thought,
when your phone is on air plane mode you can't do anything except play games
and listen to downloaded music. If you knock down all the connection towers,
there is no Feed. Problem with that is, everything would be in havoc. Is that
even the right direction to move society towards? Yes, it is the right move.
Once the people know they are only being used to make corporations rich. People
will begin to board the rebellions and eventually move closer and closer to
shutting down the feed.
What's the point though? Why resist and rebel
against it? At the end of the day the Feed makes everyone’s lives easier. And
whatever they advertise to you, you don't actually have to buy it. You're just
more inclined to do so because of the ads and promotions. I honestly don’t see
the reason why Titus wants to resist the Feed. I feel like he’s only resisting
because it’s what Violet would have wanted. He has no passion to stop the Feed
and with no passion you don’t get significant results. If Violet couldn’t
resist the Feed, Titus surely won’t be able to do a damn thing.
Would Feed really be a bad thing to have? I
don’t think so. The only negative I see in this technology is that people don’t
speak physically and have difficulty talking to other people verbally. But, if
you can message people it’s the same thing. They understand what you’re trying
to say, so it can’t be all that bad. The opportunities people would have with
Feed. All the daily activities could be done just by laying on your bed. No
more school unless you wanted to do anything in the medical and science field;
getting a career would be easier. The competition in getting a job, I
guess, would be who can use their Feed more efficiently.
The Feed is a piece of technology that we will
one day become close to having. I’m sure there is technology similar that we
just don’t know about yet. Look at the Google Glass for example, you were
literally seeing the internet through glasses. Or the VR glasses, where you’re
put in a virtual reality and can interact with what’s around you. There’s even
a wearable technology out there, basically you can project this piece of
technology on your arm. Who would’ve thought that M.T. Anderson would have
predicted so much on the advancement of technology.
-Riley S.E.
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