How to keep the Proles under control – George Orwell, “1984”

May 6, 2016 – 74th anniversary of the Fall of Corregidor.
Lol! It’s time for a qualified and willing Native American president.
 
“So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, FILMS, FOOTBALL, beer and above all, GAMBLING filled up the horizon of their minds. To KEEP THEM IN CONTROL WAS NOT DIFFICULT.
― George Orwell, from his novel “1984”, Part 1, Chapter 7, pg. 71. Orwell’s novel was written in 1948 and published the following year.
George Orwell -  'Films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.' “So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern…Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, FILMS, FOOTBALL, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.”

― George Orwell, from his novel “1984”, Part 1, Chapter 7, pg. 71 

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