I Know You'll Try Your Best

What is The Cost of Lies? 

It's not that we'll mistake them for The Truth.

The real danger is that if we hear enough lies, then we no longer 

recognise The Truth at all.

What can we do then? 

What else is left but to abandon even 

The Hope of Truth 

and content ourselves instead with Stories? 

In these stories, 

it doesn't matter 

who The Heroes are —

Who is to blame? 

In this story, it was 

Anatoly Dyatlov.

He was the best choice.

An arrogant, unpleasant man, 

he ran the room that night, 

he gave the orders 

and has no friends.

Or, at least, not important ones.

And now Dyatlov will spend the next ten years 

in a prison labor camp.

Of course, that sentence is doubly unfair.

There were far greater criminals than him at work.

And as for what Dyatlov did do,

 the man doesn't deserve prison.

He Deserves Death.

But instead, ten years for "criminal mismanagement.”

What does that mean? 

No one knows.

It doesn't matter.

What does matter is that, to Them, Justice was done.

Because, you see, to Them, 

A Just World is a SANE World.

There was nothing sane about Chernobyl.

What Happened there, 

What Happened after, 

even the good we did, 

all of it, all of it madness.

Well, I've given you 

Everything I Know.

They'll deny it, of course.

They always do.

I know you'll try your best.