Prolefeed

Prolefeed

Prolefeed is a Newspeak term in the novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four" by George Orwell. It was used to describe the deliberately useless literature, movies and music that were produced by Prolesec, a section of the Ministry of Truth, to keep the "proles" (i.e., proletariat) content and to prevent them from becoming too knowledgeable and rebelling against the ruling Party. A quote from the novel illustrates it:

The term has been usedFact|date=March 2008 to describe shallow entertainment in the real world, e.g. news about famous celebrities featured in supermarket tabloids and tabloid television.

ee also

*Bread and circuses

External links

* [http://www.newspeakdictionary.com/ Newspeak Dictionary]
* [http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/1984/ Searchable 1984 Text]


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