Visual Essay

CONSUMERISM!!!

consumerism- the consumption of goods and services
consumption- the act of consuming

Today our whole world is around the word consumerism. Everyone has their own way of consuming. It is all about NEEDS and WANTS. Some people might say that NEEDS and WANTS are the same thing, but I say that it is not. Need in my definition means that it is something that is necessary for one person to get for them to survive. Want in my definition means the things that one desire; the things they desire are the things they want.

http://www.grinningplanet.com/2005/05-31/environment-cartoon.htm
The picture above is of an overweight men trying to reach for a book on "How To Stop Over Comsuming". He can not even reach the book because of his fat stomach that is in the way. It is because of his over consuming that cause him to be soo fat.
Everyone is tricking everyone else into buying things they don't really need so they get a lot of money.
The media is putting out signs, ads, songs, and many other things to put their product out their in the world. This video from YOUTUBE.COM is a musical of consumerism. The guy is singing about "we the people" wanting things and it is a "wonderful life" were we live in because of all the FREE, 75% off, buy 2 get on for FREE things we can get.

All people want in this world is MONEY! MONEY, MONEY, MONEY!!! Money can be a good thing and money can be a bad thing, but mostly money is good. Having MONEY means one has POWER. Money is EVERYTHING. IF one does not have money they can't really do anything in this kind of world. If one don't have money, one won't have food to eat, place to live, etc. All these are NEEDS. Needs for one to survive in this kind of world. Wants are things that they already have but because they have the money that they can have wants.

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The images I have put on my blog is of the many things we the people go for. The Free sign is of the sign most people look for when they go shopping. They are just waiting for someone to give them something for FREE or buying something and getting another thing for FREE! The guy jumping over a bag of money. What it is saying is that people are using money for things that are unnecessary. Who wouldn't jump for joy over a bag of money... I know I would, if I did get a bag of money. For the video and the picture of the man, I have already wrote what they were for. My message is that people are using too much money for things that they don't really NEED! They are using it just for they things that they think they need, which is WANT! The person who has influence me for not wasting a lot of money is my older sister. She has taught me many things about the world that I think I still need to know more about. She is a big waster when it comes to buying clothes, but is also saving it at the same time. It is so because she likes shopping at GOODWILL and like Thrift Stores. She doesn't waste as much money by going to those stores but she is sometimes buying things that are just WANTS then what she really NEEDS. My feelings on this is that I feel that she is doing a good part in the world by buy stuffs that are already been use and are reusing it. By doing this it helps our world be a better place to live because if we don't reuse things then they are out in to the landfills where they are kept there for hundreds and hundreds of years. I feel that she made me a more greener person by reusing and not wasting a lot of money on things that are unnecessary.

FEED--> Blog 2 Prompt

I wouldn't really know what my type is because I change and people change. So, you can't really know what one persons type is. If I was to get a "feed", the ads I would be getting would have to be mostly on candies because I really LOVE candies. The ads would be on Skittles, Hershey, Starbursts, Snickers, and many other kinds of candies. Chatting on the feed would be so much fun! If I had the feed, I would be chatting on it every single day. It would be way better than having a phone, cell phone, or the Internet. Chatting on the feed you wouldn't have to pay a lot of money for all those electronics. It would be a faster and easier way to contact people, if you are late to work you can just use your feed to tell your boss right away by just chatting in through their head or if in an emergency like in the book when Violet starting feeling weird and starting screaming and swinging her arms and legs, "... she was choking... broken... I was crying and saying to call an ambulance...I tried to do it on my feed..." (202). If there was to be an emergency, the feed would be an easier way to connect to the emergency people to come and help you.

The feed is described as knowing what you need before you do. This is what the feed is really doing. The corporation then can tell the manufactures what to make because the corporation already knows what they want. For example, they made Link, Quendy, Calista and all the other people already know what they want before they even know what they want. The corporation is putting them in a "catalog". They are making you want things you don't even want cause they already made you think that you want it. Yeah, like in the book, they are categorizing the people so, it would be easy to make things so they can buy them. The more things the people buy, the more money the corporation and manufacture gets. The feed, by doing this, they make a lot of money from "making" people. What I mean by "making", is that the corp. is making Link, Marty, Calista, and all the other people. Titus and his friends doesn't get the freedom to be whatever they want. They don't get to pick what they want and be who they want to be. They are like being 'brainwash' into wasting their money on things that are 'suppose' to be their type. But maybe it's not because the corp. is brainwashing them into wanting the item when they enter the store. They did this by having musics that draws people to the store and having celebrity model or advertise their clothing, even though it is ugly, people want it because it is 'in'.

Missing the feed for Titus is like he "carried his lungs in a suitcase and opened it to breathe". What I think Titus is saying is that he can't live without the feed. He's saying that the feed is like his lungs that he needs to have them everyday to survive. He needs the feed to live. It's like using the feed is like breathing. If he doesn't breathe he dies... if he doesn't have or use the feed he's going to die or not survive well with out the feed. The feed is like a part of his and their life. It's like when I don't get to use the computer at my house; Missing the Computer. It's not like if I don't get to use the computer or have a computer that I'm not going to live. I can live with out a computer, I'll just need to find another way to live my life. All I think Titus is saying is that he can't live without the feed; it's games, movies, music, chatting, and all the other great things that feed does.


They have enter a time of calamity... time of disaster. What this means is that the feed is going to destroy them some day. It is going to take over their body like how it has already taken over Violet's body. The feed is going to make them go crazy and do crazy things. It is going to take over the world. SAVE THE PEOPLE, SAVE THE WORLD! Everthing the people is going to use is going to come from the feed. The feed is going to be their everthing; their life.