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In Other Words The public sphere is where competing storylines slug their way out, it’s where politicians, journalists, experts and yakkers connect the dots, find patterns and fashion narratives. We take all that in, spoiler-free, in a state of genre-blindness, not knowing whether we’re watching a tragedy or an adventure play out. It's Important to Know How the Stories We Tell Ourselves -- True, or Not-- Shape our World... for Better or Worse AlterNet / By Marty Kaplan Let The Slave (Incorporating The Price Of Experience. Text: William Blake) Let the slave grinding at the mill run out into the field Let him look up into the heavens and laugh in the bright air Let the enchained soul, shut up in darkness and in sighing Whose face has never seen a smile in thirty weary years Rise and look up; his chains are loose, his dungeon doors are open; And let his wife and children return from the oppressors scourge They look behind at every step and believe it is...