Everyone is supersmart now. You can look things up automatic, like science and history, like if you want to know which battles of the Civil War George Washington fought in and shit" (47). While Titus may say that the feed makes everyone "super smart," he cannot read, he isn't informed on any world events, and uses the feed primarily to m-chat (mind chat), watch TV programs, and most of all, to buy the latest things that the corporate-run feed knows before he does. Clearly, people were excited about the Feed because essentially, they did not have to do any work on their own. The quick information access provided by the Feed, caused the vocabularies of characters in the novel to be minimal, and full of futuristic slang. Anderson's use of language mirrors the slang of today's "youth culture," and familiarizes the reader with the likeness between the characters' mode of communicating and the present state of communication. The degradation of language and heavy use of slang is not only a matter of youth, but is also present in the speech of Titus's parents. For instance, Titus's father says, "Now maybe you better take the girlf home" (128). Abbreviating a simple word such as " girlfriend" exhibits that their futuristic society has adapted multiple generations to using more concise and shortened vocabularies. Throughout the novel, Anderson emphasizes his created slang and adolescent vocabulary specific to the society in Feed. This extreme emphasis on the nature of the teens' language use corresponds with the theme of the dangers of overpowering consumerism. Even the word choice that characterizes the slang used in the novel carries undertones of advertisements, purchases, and corporation power.
The Feed presents many distractions that shelter people from heeding the major issues within the U.S. Throughout their society, it is apparent that many problems are not being solved.
" As we can see in the book Feed, by M.T. ... But with technology even the blood relations are weakening as we can see in Feed by M.T. Anderson. ... The book Feed by M.T. ... The lesions in the Feed by M.T. ...