being intellectually drowned in meaningless entertainment is the fate of the prols in 1984. > There was a whole chain of separate departments dealing with prol

being intellectually drowned in meaningless entertainment is the fate of the prols in 1984. > There was a whole chain of separate departments dealing with proletarian literature, music, drama, and entertainment generally. Here were produced rubbishy newspapers containing almost nothing except sport, crime and astrology, sensational five-cent novelettes, films oozing with sex, and sentimental songs