Feed, take 2

I felt depressed after finishing this book. As I tried to put my finger on why, I came up with a couple of reasons.

I think that we are close to the society of Feed. Perhaps not literally, but our culture is already so incredibly consumer-driven. (Think about the amount of money invested in Superbowl commericals for example.) And when it comes to the internet, that consumer-driven culture just expands exponentially. With so much technology surrounding us, we need to be careful not to get overwhelmed and lose touch, which is what's happened in the novel.

And in the novel, that consumer-driven culture, taken to the extreme, has stripped humanity of, well, its humanity. I think that's really what made me so depressed about the way the novel ended. If people hadn't let it go so far, it wouldn't have ended so badly.