THE PRISON WITHOUT WALLS

THE LIES WE LIVE WITH – Why Most Men Stay in Comfortable Prisons

Hey bro,

Most men today are serving life sentences…
Without ever stepping foot in a cell.

We wake up in a box.
Drive to work in a box.
Stare at a screen in another box.
Then come home and escape into yet another—
Netflix, porn, weed, booze, junk food, scrolling—
Whatever keeps us numb.

We don’t remember the last time we felt alive.

Not “fine.”
Not “getting by.”
Alive.

Because we’re not living.
We’re surviving.

We wear masks so long we forget they’re masks.
We become who the world wants us to be—
While forgetting who we are.

And it’s not your fault.
You were taught this.

Taught to be a good boy.
To follow the rules.
To never question.
To suppress your feelings and serve the system.

You were promised freedom through money, success, women…

But ended up in an invisible cage.

And that’s where it all starts. But it is crucial to recognize that there are severe consequences for our actions and inactions...

Because we’re so caught up in our own lies and distractions, we accept the unacceptable all around us—

Corrupt leaders.
Rigged systems.
Bosses who treat us like we're disposable.
Fake news.
Empty influencers.
Doctors who push pills but ignore root causes.
And a government that plays god while abandoning its people.

Millions of children go missing every year.

Not thousands.
Millions.

Stolen. Trafficked. Vanished.

And most of us see it, yet we continue to just scroll.

Maybe we feel a flicker of horror.
Maybe we whisper, “That’s terrible” to ourselves.
Maybe we even share a post once a year.
But then we go back to business as usual.

Because we don’t know what to do.
Because the truth is too heavy.
Because no one else seems to care…
So we assume maybe it’s not that bad.

But isn’t it?

And if you’ve ever been a father…
A brother…
A protector…
Then you know this should shake us to our fucking core.

But it doesn’t. Why?
Because we’ve been trained to look away.
To stay comfortable. To not rock the boat.
To not question the systems that allow this to continue.

Billions of dollars go to war machines every year. 
Tanks. Drones. Missiles. Bombs.

Weapons of mass destruction—funded by your paycheck.

Meanwhile…

Veterans sleep on sidewalks.
Single moms work three jobs to survive.
Kids in your neighborhood go hungry.

But our government sends $90 billion in artillery
to fuel another war halfway across the world…
and we shrug.

Because it’s “too complicated.”
Because the media told us it was necessary.
Because both sides of the aisle agreed—so it must be legit, right?

Wrong.

We’ve been lied to so many times,
We’ve become numb to it.

We accept corruption like it’s normal.
We watch political puppets lie through their teeth,
make backroom deals,
sell out their own people for power…

And still we vote.
Still we pledge allegiance.
Still we cling to the illusion that someone else is going to save us.

But I am going to tell you what you already know deep down: no one’s coming.

Not the left.
Not the right.
Not the influencers.
Not the billionaire saviors in Silicon Valley.

Because the system doesn’t give a fuck about you.
It never has.

As men, we’ve forgotten how to say NO.

No to the bullshit.
No to the lies.
No to rules that strip our freedom in the name of “safety.”

We let our bosses talk down to us.
We let media tell us what to think.
We let doctors who don’t know our name prescribe our futures.
We let school systems kill our sons’ spirits.
We let fear drive our choices—
And then wonder why we feel powerless.

This is the prison.

Not bars.
Not lockdowns.

But the silent agreement with a life that doesn’t feel true.

And the worst part?

Most men know this.

Somewhere, deep down, they feel it.
They know something is off.
They feel the weight of the lies.
They feel the numbness creeping in.

But they say nothing.
Do nothing.
Change nothing.

Because it’s easier to keep their head down than to face the truth.

And so…

We scroll. We drink. We avoid. We shrug. We accept.

And in doing so, we hand over our power.
Our purpose.
Our integrity.

But brother… this is the moment to wake the fuck up.

Because while we sleepwalk—

Millions are suffering.
The world is burning.
And your soul is starving.

The question isn’t “Is it really that bad?”
The question is:

What will it take for you to finally say ENOUGH?

Because real change?
It doesn’t start in Washington.
It starts in your living room.
In your decisions.
In the moment you choose to remember who the fuck you are.

Because:

When you don’t speak your truth, everything becomes a lie.
When you play it safe long enough, you forget your fire.

And that? That’s the real tragedy.

You’re not meant to live like this.
You’re not meant to trade your soul for a salary.
You’re not meant to half-ass your life in the name of safety.

You are here to live.
To stand.
To reclaim the truth no system can give you.

Because real freedom?

It’s not doing whatever the fuck you want.
It’s living in full alignment with your truth—without apology.

And that…
That’s the only way out of this prison.

—Cory Skyy