"All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism ..."

[fleabiscuit]

15. Aaarg! Now I'm going to have to reread it again.

For added context:

"In Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, proles (collective noun) refers to the working class of Oceania (i.e. the proletariat).

Oceania's society is divided into three distinct classes: Inner Party, Outer Party and proles (with their own upper, middle and lower classes). The proles constitute 85% of the population; they receive little education, work at manual labor, live in poverty (although in having privacy and anonymity, qualitatively better off than Outer Party members), and usually die by the age of sixty."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proles

Well, at least according to Orwell most of us have a bit more privacy, but he didn't have knowledge about supercomputers and statins.