Every member of the society spies on the rest, and it is his duty to inform against them. All are slaves and equal in their slavery. . . The great thing about it is equality. . . Slaves are bound to be equal.
Some of the qualities that go into making a good reporter - aggressiveness, a certain sneakiness, a secretive nature, nosiness, the ability to find out that which someone wants hidden, the inability to take 'no' with any sort of grace, a taste for gossip, rudeness, a fair disdain for what people will think of you and an occasional and calculated disregard for rules - are also qualities that go into making a very antisocial human being.