There is one other source of hope for Winston: “If there is hope it lies in the proles.”Unlike the members of the Party, the proles are given almost complete freedom to travel, buy ...

It is a day that reminds every Zimbabwean of the labour pangs that delivered our country, and birth a new promise for her people. EACH year on the 18th of April, Zimbabwe celebrates her independence ...

And Newman expands on the concepts of Oceania, Big Brother, Newspeak, the “proles” and other 1984 staples, showcasing a world that’s even more heartbreakingly cruel for women than men — no ...

Given the ostentatious displays of wealth by Russian oligarchs such as Roman Abramovich (who has three of the largest private yachts in the world), a bit of recognition for the little guy is not ...

The Proles make up 85% of the population of Oceania and are kept benign on a diet of beer, football, lottery tickets and “prolefeed” – entertainment churned out by the Party. Some feel that ...

Players get paid too much. It’s a racist institution. It’s bread and circuses for the proles in a world going to hell. It’s sexist as fuck. It’s a capitalist scam. I could go on and on and ...

Second is cloud proles, or cloud proletarians. Look at the workers in Amazon warehouses who are monitored by algorithms. And the third one is you and me. I call us cloud serfs. Because the ...

Somewhere along the line you might have seen Apple's "1984" advert, in which files of shaven-headed, blank-eyed, zombie proles are trudging into a cavernous chamber while a giant head on a vast screen ...

Name-dropping his reading material, Nigel mentions junkie writer Alduous Huxley's Brave New World, where the proles took soma at the end of the day to get out their face, or ''escape'' as reality ...

Of course, cloud serfs aren’t to be confused with “cloud proles”. Huh? In Varoufakis’s vision, these are the people who work directly for the cloudalists such as Amazon. They’re often ...

And as anyone who has seen Saltburn will know, the super wealthy may be obnoxious and cruel, but the proles are shifty, grasping and absolutely not to be trusted. There are clear thematic ...