Do what you need to do to take care of yourself! It sounds like you don't choose to open up to your wife about your distress, for fear of causing her distress. I follow your logic there, but I also hope you do have someone you can talk to about it whom you don't fear harming, because they already know and are perhaps further along on the grief / acceptance path than you are.
Good luck. I wish you well.
Yes, that's correct, I was referring to the fable. I should probably have included a broader hint about that.
I think your thesis is not super crisp, because this was an off the cuff post! And your examples are accordingly not super clear either, same reason. But there's definitely still a nugget of an idea in here.
It's something like, with the decentralization of both taking a position in the first place, and commenting on other people's positions, the lizardmen have more access to the people taking positions than they did in a world without social media. And lizardmen can and do serious damage to individuals in a seemingly random fashion.
Yup, seems legit. Our species does not have sufficient community-norm tech to be decentralized with full-mesh contact in groups larger than Dunbar's number.
Also, what a sentence I just wrote. What the fuck.