"Feed" in retrospect...

After reading the book, “Feed,” I was thrown into a calamity of ideas that questioned the future. Mainly the book centered around how technology and government is going to eventually turn us into brainwashed robots that walk around thinking that everything is peachy keen, or at least that is my interpretation. The book pounded the this idea into my brain the same way a religious family would pound the fact that the devil is evil to their newborn child. I pondered the idea of my children, grandchildren, or even myself living in a world like the one in “Feed,” and I almost think that it is impossible.
Then again, this made me think about generations. I thought to myself that every older generation thinks that the younger generation has it way too good off, their generation was harder than the theirs, how the younger ones are becoming puppets and walking uphill both ways and etc, etc, etc. Fact is, when I thought about it, the younger generation doesn’t have the same kind of hardships that the previous generation has, but they also have different hardships that they didn’t. I can picture my generation saying how we needed to actually get up and press buttons on the toaster/microwave to make toast instead of just thinking of buttered toast and out it comes 2 seconds later in your microwave/toaster/ihome/refrigerator/tannin bed or whatever.
What also struck me in the book was the actual feed. That little microchip or whatever it is that is wired to your brain. I don’t really think I would want something like this in my own brain, I mean, what happens if it malfunctions? Wait, I know, I die. Having the feed is almost like having another major body organ like your heart or brain, its just one more thing that you can’t live without. That just scares the hell out of me, and on top of that, most people will get it. That means that it will become the majority, and without it living in a feed oriented society would be next to impossible. Violets dad is an example of that, because he didn’t get that job because he didn’t have a feed. Another thing, what if the feed is actually some sort of brainwashing/zombie creating device that will take over your brain and kill anything that opposes the person who “owns” you? Sure it could first be only used for super-soldiers or some bull malarkey, but eventually whoever “owns” feed “owns” everything. If history has taught us anything, it’s that the biggest douche bag wins, or the one with the most “stuff” wins.
Now, these are all really big “ifs”, but still, I wouldn’t take my chances. I’m sure that there is the same chance of a very peaceful as much as a cataclysmic one. The book really made me look at the near and distant future, and how much we have advanced in the early past. It seems like we are still growing rapidly, and I can’t predict the future, so I guess we will just have to cross our fingers and hope for the best. But if we all end up mindless slaves working for some psychopath because of our own negative human instincts I just want all of you to know that I FREAKING CALLED IT.