"Breakfast where the news is read.
Television, children fed."
these lines have many possible meanings
"Television, children fed" could mean many things:
--perhaps we somehow feed the television (by giving our energy and attention to it (i.e., as in The Matrix))... so the line means that we feed the TV and we feed our children
--it could mean that the "television children" are fed --i.e., the children who are raised on TV are fed
--it could mean that the children who appear on TV are fed food --i.e., the children (Vietnamese perhaps) appear on TV, eating food
--it could mean that children are fed information in the form of TV -- just as adults are fed information in the form of newspapers ("Breakfast where the news is read"... interestingly breakfast is not where any food is eaten...instead breakfast is where information is consumed)
-- it could describe a lifeless routine that is so meaningless that it only merits a few words, thought of in a zombielike trance -- i.e., wake up, have breakfast and read newspaper... turn on TV, feed children (food)... etc. ... in this case, the "living dead" are ordinary people, zombies caught in monotonous domesticated lives
"Breakfast where the news is read. Television, children fed."
these lines have many possible meanings
"Television, children fed" could mean many things:
--perhaps we somehow feed the television (by giving our energy and attention to it (i.e., as in The Matrix))... so the line means that we feed the TV and we feed our children
--it could mean that the "television children" are fed --i.e., the children who are raised on TV are fed
--it could mean that the children who appear on TV are fed food --i.e., the children (Vietnamese perhaps) appear on TV, eating food
--it could mean that children are fed information in the form of TV -- just as adults are fed information in the form of newspapers ("Breakfast where the news is read"... interestingly breakfast is not where any food is eaten...instead breakfast is where information is consumed)
-- it could describe a lifeless routine that is so meaningless that it only merits a few words, thought of in a zombielike trance -- i.e., wake up, have breakfast and read newspaper... turn on TV, feed children (food)... etc. ... in this case, the "living dead" are ordinary people, zombies caught in monotonous domesticated lives