Impressions on Iron Gates Chapter Eight

The Lieutenant Disciplines the Shock Trooper to Death

At the armaments-reveal event, a lowly shock trooper is found by internal security smoking carelessly by a powerful loaded rocket, the blackest of jewels upon the iron crown of the organization. He is confronted and acts all cool and sassy. He is taken into custody for processing. The psychotic Lieutenant is called in to have his fill of sadistic fun.

At the hands of the Lieutenant, the errant shock trooper is promptly placed out of combat. A concussion and a few broken bones are just the beginning of it. During this, his final hour alive, he is stripped naked, restrained, beaten with a horse whip until he is almost dead, anally raped, doused and waterboarded with industrial-grade disinfectant, and lit on fire with the disinfectant functioning as fuel.

A few things to say about this. When one first reads of such purely sadistic behavior, one must ask why. The first reason is simple, someone derives pleasure from this. People, including children, torture animals, plants, and very often each other. Bullying of all kinds is the norm, and it does not always take the shape of regular bullying. It is a kind of destructive parasitism.

But beyond individual enjoyment of the less conscious side of humanity, incorrectly called “animalistic”, and in truth simply pure disembodied evil, there is also the reason why a totalitarian organization would not only allow but promote such behavior. We see here the typical behavior of Communist regimes on the Left, and after that of the post-Fascist CIA-led USA-indoctrinated Cold War regimes of the Right.

However, we know that humans at all points in time, everywhere in the world, have behaved like this. Whatever you believe you are capable of, and whatever sense of justice you think you possess, let me tell you, you are as susceptible as anyone else. The real culprit is never the state, the totalitarian regime, the ideology, but you.

Those other things simply prey on the fact that you are already prone to them. If humans did not have the tendency for cruelty and extreme prejudice, not just against “minorities” or “the weak”, but against anything your authorities, or even your own sense of “justice”, tell you. But I am not advocating for a “kumbaya” acceptance of everyone and anything, or infinite tolerance.

What I am saying is that there is an evil, endlessly cruel, side of humanity that feeds on the suffering of others. The truth behind it is probably mechanical in nature. We live by stimulating emotions and sensations. If we feed and move into the feeling of satisfaction that we get from revenge, from making those who we perceived are in the wrong suffer, and we keep getting our fill of satisfaction, to the hilt and to the brim and beyond, then you start to embody the sadist beast.

This is a choice, as are all things in life. Being vigilant is not a matter of rejecting your negative feelings, but rather asking how far you are willing to go down a certain path for the satisfaction of those emotions. Are the emotions there to please you, or are you here to please the emotions?

It is not surprising, then, that in some occult quarters it has come to be posited and acknowledged that our bodies are mere hopping stations. We are continually possessed by different spirits. What this guiding light that we call consciousness, and which constitutes what we call “I”, can do, is to choose and run along with one of these voices. It can choose what spirit, quite literally, what demon or angel, will ride the perishable skin suit you have been given stewardship of.