The network's lack of reality stalwarts became particularly visible--and damaging--during last season's writers' strike.

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The Neanderthals who buried their companions with such care seem to have imagined that the visible, material world was not the only reality.

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But, once again, the reality is different from what is visible.

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There is no mandate to see all the time, but the reality in front of our noses, made visible to me by these people, is well worth the look.

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Thus we should not allow the dramatic power of the most visible narrative, the struggle between oppressed and oppressor, to drown out the sad reality of another less noble story line -- namely that this is still, at least for now, a sectarian conflict.

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