Blog 2

In the chapter "Missing the Feed," it tells us that the corporations controls everything of a person's mind with the feed in their brain. We all know that the feed is like a computer chip which sends advertisements, informations, and things that ones may like, need or want. The corporations in this book that controls everything are mainly Feedlink, OnFeed and Amercian Feedware that collects each and everyone's data on what they think and feel. They then send these datas to companies so the companies will know what the people want. People that knows about the feed and that that the coporations controls everything saids that they are bad but they still uses it because they get everything they want. On page 48 Titus said, "Of course, everyone is like da da da, evil corporations, oh they're so bad, we all say that and we all know that it controls everything.....But they're are the only way to get all this stuff..." Since they know that they are control by corporations, they do not mind because either way they are still being control and getting everything that they wanted. Plus that they are all really super smart now.

Titus think the boat picture is boring because he does not know how it feels to be normal without using the feed to help. He has never done anything that he tells himself to do. Only what the feed tells him of what he will like to do. So this made him lost interest of what he is doing without the feed. The feed which Titus relied on gave everything that he want and like. On page 45 Titus said, "I couldn't find anything interesting about that picture at all." It is showing how the feed is used to entertain his activities for him that he is not use to the things that can be done normally. It is like an addiction where you cannot stop at one point without it. For example, like a person who takes drup pills just to make them feel better. But once they ran out of the pills than they starts to act crazy which is because it is an addiction. So it is the same for Titus. He can't be normal without the feed because he has never done anything normal. Which makes him go boring and starts to do stupid and dumb things.

I think Violet's father wants to study the dead languages because so that he can teach the others to become more normal and for those that has the feed would be normal again. Also because the language was once so important that maybe he does not want it to vanished. Now that feeds were invented, many people became careless about it when they can be supersmart using the feed. On page 65 it said, "They're languages that were once important but that nobody uses anymore. They haven't been used for a long time, except for the historians." From my experience, my dad had taught me, my siblings, and cousins on how to read and write in Hmong. But he only taught the basic ones. There were more and harder ones that I did not know. The Hmong language is known as Paj Hauj. But many Hmong people does not know. Only those who were taught and those who passes it on to the younger generations. Many Hmong teenagers today could not read and write in Hmong. I mean they could speak but not fluently anymore.