We use the term "surrogate activity" to designate an activity that is directed toward an artificial goal that the individual pursues for the sake of the "fulfillment" that he gets from pursuing the goal, not because he needs to attain the goal itself.
me on the far reaches of the Known Network still lurk scarily near even after excommunication- as if they still seek a grain of attention to keep alive in him the belief, or hope, that others besides himself were the enemies of the Party.