End of Feed

Feed did not end happily ever after at all. This was not surprising considering that at the point of time that this book takes place, pretty much everything that could go wrong with the world has happen, and picking up the pieces of what is left would be a huge undertaking for anyone who still had full function of their own minds, never mind those who had already given control to the feed.

It is sad all that has happened in the world in this book, that the world has become so polluted and literally toxic that towns upon towns have just been covered and destroyed by sludge. Animals for the most part are gone, as the sludge makes it pretty difficult for them to thrive in any sort of way... and now the government is starting to try to move on to the moon to continue with their destruction.

People in this book have sacrificed quite a lot for their feed. Their education, their environment, their own health... those lesions, the fact that they are considered a fashion statement is pretty sad. The fact that people have just accepted them as something that they have to deal with points so strongly to a society at large that- even if they did have the freedom to choose differently, have at this point become so dependent on the feed that they would find any excuse not to fight it.

The book ends with the death of Violet. At the end of the day- the feed has become more powerful than anything else in her body- the feed has become so intertwined in her that it is medically indistinguishable from her brain- and the loss of it has pretty much the same effect as brain death would- with every other part of her body so dependent, that with a failing feed everything falls apart.

 Those with the feed, especially those who had it implanted at birth, are not given a choice, another option. They are never really able to really think for themselves. From the second they are born, into a world already mostly destroyed, they lose their actual ability to live for themselves. They are born into a trap, one that they never decided for themselves, but one that will decide everything for them for as long as they continue to exist.

It is a very sad ending to a book, but one that- with our obsession with electronics and social media today- is maybe frighteningly relatable.