3rd Mersenne Prime

Feed is certainly not your typical dystopic novel. It's hysterical, serious, alarming, sad... altogether a satirical masterpiece. MT Anderson has put together a scary theory of what our world is coming to and he has you laughing the whole way through. When you begin the book, the language is shallow and unintelligent and almost forces you to quit reading but it quickly becomes obvious that Anderson is trying to prove a very real point. The world is becoming dumb. We all live in our little media driven, electronically created bubbles that have allowed us to forget what learning is. Our minds don't need to retain information since computers hold all the knowledge of the world. Reading and writing are practically myths and an extensive vocabulary is a thing of the past. Every other word used is "Like" or "dude", even coming from the mouth of an adult. Anderson makes a great show of how easily we can become tied up in slang by using random, everyday words with definitions we are not accustomed to. The internet and technology are literally eating away at us, leaving us motionless and faceless consumers. It all comes down to what we buy and how much we spend. Things that once belonged to the people are now trademarked by large corporations (i.e. School™,  Clouds™).