Impressions on Iron Gates Chapter Six
Impressions on Iron Gates Chapter Six
Armaments unveiling, limits of the organization, Nadezhda’s appetites
Most of this chapter is spent on the presentation of new weapons manufactured by Nadezhda’s father at the special several-day long organization event. Amid his demonstrations of newly restored and re-reproduced armaments from a world now long-gone, which were received with maddened demonstrations of excitement, the reader will also learn about the limits of the organization and the operations they carry out without.
In a time of scarcity and savagery, the organization still plans unlimited expansion and the exercise of tyrannical sadistic control but is forced to bide its time as it manages its resources and engineers its own territories into human weapons increasingly vile. Other territories, holding on to old-era forms of government and ethics, may still have stashes of armaments, and may present, if not a challenge, at least an expenditure of resources that the commander would rather avoid.
To keep its finger upon things, spies are constantly being sent for infiltration and data recollection purposes. Snipers and other assassins go on solitary missions to extinguish the life of selected darlings of enemy populations, simply in order to create terror in the minds of those who had not yet bowed down before the organization’s bloody might. Some population centers would be so thoroughly rendered dysfunctional through cloak and dagger operations that the people themselves would end up begging the organization to come in and put things in order.
As the presentation of the new weapon came to an end, the destructive capability which had hitherto been missing from the commander’s arsenal, those attending the event, both officers and lower ranks, moved on to enjoy the amenities provided. Local boar and improvised alcoholic beverages laced with chemicals.
We are told that the commander favors having shock troops from the black race because they tend to be more hardy, less cuddled and pampered by the fallen bourgeoisie system than other races. They had also been traditionally opposed to the system and so were prone to be ready for action, their generations-long state of uncertainty meant they could improvise where the pampered races would have crumbled into tears.
At the very end of the chapter, we get the first taste of what Iron Gates has been condemned for and attacked by those who probably seek to quiet down or silence the reality and extent of child sexual abuse that goes on in our world. Nadezhda, a young, though already adult woman, flirts with a ten-year-old boy who lasciviously checks her out. The book reports it, does not offer any other opinion on it. We are told she plans to have some fun with him. This, however, pales in comparison to what lies further into the book.
Among the many things that this book lays out about the world today in the form of a future dystopia, is the widespread and old-as-history practice of sexual abuse and human trafficking. The fact, also, that sexual relations between adults and pre-teens, both forced and commercialized, as well as “compliant”, between strangers or family members or “family friends”, continues to plague society to this day, with no signs of abating. We are called to stare the ugly truth in the face, and ask what kind of world we live in, rather than the one you watch in sitcoms.
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