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Prolefeed is a Newspeak term in the novel ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' by George Orwell. It was used to describe the deliberately superficial 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. The ruling Party believes that too much knowledge could motivate the proles to rebel against them. In the novel, Prolesec is described in detail: The term is used occasionally to describe shallow entertainment in the real world. For example, Charles Spencer, reviewing the Queen musical ''We Will Rock You'' for the ''Daily Telegraph'', described it as 'prolefeed at its worst'. Theodore Dalrymple wrote in the ''The Spectator'' that "France .... is less dominated by mass distraction (known here as popular culture, but in ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' as ''prolefeed'') than Britain is." The term has also been applied to fast food, such as that of McDonald's: "Once seen as the all-American corporation, 'McDonald’s' is now shorthand for a globalist mass culture that provides cheap, unhealthy food to lower-class people. McDonald’s is, quite literally, prolefeed. Part of this image was a deliberate choice by the corporation." == See also == * Bread and circuses * Dumbing down * Infotainment * Junk food news * Kitsch * Low culture * Penny dreadful * Telebasura 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Prolefeed」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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