So this is the first proper post of my ACNI ACES ‘1979’ project. There’s three essays. I know where I want them to go. I’m just not entirely sure of which road they will take. The one with bandits and a ‘Here Be Dragons’ sign I expect. I thought I’d place a (rather out of focus – sorry my pics never are in focus for some reason) photo up of the first bit of research I will be doing. A couple of pop-cultural books on the dark-net and contemporary Russia. You might say that has nowt to do with 1979 and you’d probably be right…and yet…we accept talking wolves and porcine construction workers not to mention frog love in fairy tales so let’s see where this goes. And fairy tales were created from that anthrax leak from Compound 19 in the city of Sverdlovsk in 1979 by Soviet officials even if no-one really believed them. We’ve always preferred stories to reality ourselves. It may or may not be (appropriately enough) true but there’s a tale of an artist drawing a mural of King William on a brown horse and was asked by local art critics why the horse wasn’t white as it was most often portrayed. He explained that if you were a leader on a white horse you might as well paint a target on yourself as everyone would see where you were so more than likely William was on a darker coloured horse. That may be true he was told but it’s not what happened. We’ve always preferred our myths to be true. It’s not that we’re post truth but more dangerously we know the truth but we just don’t care. It’s not our reality, it doesn’t fit how we see things. For the real and reality are now two different things. We’re ‘taking back control of Britain’ and we’re ‘making America great again’…