Aside from the fact that I am slightly annoyed by the diction in this novel, I am surprisingly developing an interest and understanding of the work. It took me about two days of reading and re-reading to understand what the “feed” was and why these people were visiting the moon. My brain was literally exhausted after the first two chapters.
I came to the conclusion that Anderson uses the "feed" and the setting between moon and earth to portray a futuristic possibility of the consumers market to gain full control and priority of the human mind. The characters rely on this device because not only does it control how they communicate and interact with one another, it also controls their bodily functions, mental development, and mental capacities.
This makes perfect sense. Anderson is suggesting the the consumers market's current influence on us will become a dictation rather than a choice. What I meam by that is that by the "feed" being implanted in the character they no longer have a choice to manage or control how much the comsumers market influences them. In turn they are governed by and limited to the authority of the feed.
I love Violet. Violet was not implanted with the feed until she was seven years old. This implies the that resistance to being lured in is possible, but ultimately inevitable.
Violet also comes from a lower class family. I interpreted this as the lower class' inability to be lured by material things in which they often desire but put little value in. Because majority of the population is implanted with the feed I assume that it is representative of their desires for higher socio-economic status obtained through their surrender to the consumerist lifestyle.
Ultimately, the feed is portrayed as the consumers market's disregard to humanity and endeavors to exploit them for capital gain.
Somehow, I've developed this love-hate relationship with this book. It has this push/pull effect where I'm simutaneously annoyed by the characters and captivated by the concepts.
