15- Treasure Hunting

Dear Yu-xi, (this will be about your best post and all your great insights)

I agree with you that art ca be both, the mirror and the hammer in which we use to shape the world. I love your point about "But the extent to which it influences the reader or culture depends on how much it touches them. The deeper the impact, the deeper the influence." I feel like in most cases the people that read Feed do not really get the big picture and so do not pay much attention to it because they think it is irrelevant in their lives and just pass by that certain mirror and leave the hammer in its place. It also depends like what you were saying when you read the book in your life time. I would agree that younger teenagers would get the plot and all but would not capture what the book is trying to tell us.

Also when he does things that aren't that great and flawed like deleting Violet's memory's because he's trying to maintain his way of life. I feel like this is true for most of us. If something is interfering with how we live our lives and if focused on could change how we live our lives most turn away and walk in the other direction, perhaps immersing themselves more into their old lives. Just LIke how after Titus broke up with Violet, he went back together with Quendy and went head first into his old life until violets death brought him to the surface again. I agree with your view about being able to control your world here today to by going on line. Many of the computer games or web sites are interactive and your able to create your self and go around the world you choose and can do anything you want and get what ever you want. "Maybe the same way happiness is infectious, being disconnected is as well. You can disconnect from this world and go to another."

I love your interpretations of Feed and how you are able to see the connection to our lives through it. Though one thing I do have to say is that perhaps when you were reading the Whats Bad is Good For You and in some other areas you should add in about how you personally feel instead of just summarizing or giving opinions. I'm interested in knowing how Feed had effected your life and how reading Whats Bad Is Good For You, changed or did not change your view point on the subject matter.

Great reading your post, you have so many good ideas and even have the same ideas as mine but you give new evidence that I had not thought of and you provoke my thoughts.
:)


Dear Charles,

I have not really though about how people are using the computer more and the TV to get educated on certain things like what you said about the discovery channel. I agree with you that most people choose to learn off the Internet or the TV rather then reading about the stuff. Do you think this is a good thing or a bad thing? Is it proving that we have grown lazy over the years and we just want things to be "fed" to us so we do not have to do any work?

"It's just a future device that can possibly help people enjoy the nature of life and being able to explore the outside world, and at the same time be able to surf the Internet and all those stupid things with these devices at the same time." I kinda disagree with you hear. Even though the Feed helped I'm not so sure it helped anyone enjoy nature. It only gave false impressions of life and everything natural. These were only fake representations that were overshadowed by all the advertisements that different companies set up for you. Unless your arguing that after you read Feed you felt more in touch or wanted to be more in touch with nature, cause having a chip in your head or having your phone with you for most of the day does not give you enough time to (like andy said) look up at the sky once in awhile.

I agree with you that you can not start to destroy something with out first knowing what there is to be fixed. I never really thought of it that way. I only really considered if art was a hammer then they would already know but just have the hammer does not mean people know what to do with it. There does need to be art that is a mirror but I feel like there can be art that is both a mirror and a hammer. Though feed is more of a mirror and is showing you where the hammer is, it does not show us how to re-construct our lives. Knowing what is the matter and then being able to re-arrange it to make it better is important.

Great reading all your posts. I felt like I got many more good ideas and your posts also made me think. Keep on writing. :)