Resist The Feed

I’ve been doing a lot of research lately and have come up with so much information! We can fight this! Titus, we can resist the Feed. Children have been fighting against their oppressive governments for years and making a difference. I am aware that writing this letter is dangerous, but I am not risking any more than the “218 million children around the world who work as child labourers or the estimated 300,000 boys and girls who are exploited by armies during times of conflict, and forced to act as soldiers, sex slaves and servants” (FreeTheChildren.com). As Franklin said, “Society constructs the children it needs. Instead of policies to protect children in the community, the government and media have preferred to promote polices to protect the community from children” (5). This is exactly what the Feed has done to us, Titus. It has stolen our right to individuality. According to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, “we have the right to say what we think should happen when adults are making decisions that affect us, and to have our opinions taken into account” (Article 12). Our freedom from the Feed is what I am advocating for as it is more detrimental than accommodating to our generation. There is a story I read about a young girl named Yeny, and her fight to bring peace to her country of Columbia. “Determined to make a change, she and her friends decided to promote peace by organizing carnivals, parades, and parties for kids in the city. Before long, the peace movement had attracted children from right across the country” (Mulder). We can do this too, Titus. If these children could organize such an event and even manage to stop the violence for a day, why can’t we use the same techniques to a...

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...or my peace and freedom.

Titus, I implore you to join me on this mission. I have already enlisted the assistance of my father and he is completely behind me. I know that once you see the effect that our work has on our World, you will be instantly gratified. The Feed simply

is not all that it is hyped to be. By letting a computer control our lives, we are distancing ourselves from our full capabilities as humans. Think about it, our grandparents did not have Feeds, yet they lived long, fruitful lives and were able to make do in a world where they could have babies without in vitro, and they could swim in the ocean because it wasn’t so acidic the whales had to wear raincoats! Titus, the world was a better place before Feednet took over. I just want to get back to that.

I know this will be hard for you to process, but please read and think it over.