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Schrodinger’s Sociopath: to block, or not to block, that is the question
If you’re not engaging with your ex, do they exist?
There’s a school of thought called cybernetics. I won’t be boring, but basically, we’re all intertwined. Your aunt knows someone at bingo who knows the judge of my ex-boyfriend’s first prosecution case. We’re all connected to people at varying degrees in various different orders. The further outside your network I am, the less impact I’m going to have on your ideas, culture, society, finances, or security. For example, tribal conflict in the Sugu Valley doesn’t really change how I feel about knife crime in London. We’re not in each other’s pockets.
Well, we shouldn’t be.
In the good old days, when we found out our boy/girlfriend was a monstrous abusive manipulative bastard who belonged at the bottom of a sulphurous hell pit, we’d break up, avoid seeing them in the park, and call it a day. Out of sight, out of mind. Unless you got a deranged stalker on your hands, the system worked. But with the internet, the ability to just drunkenly, casually, or frantically text your ex is a thousand times more possible than impulsively getting on the train to Newark and knocking on their door.
