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The "Dead Inside" Generation

How men were brainwashed into believing that feeling nothing is power

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Oct 13, 2025
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Somewhere along the line, men stopped being human.
We became robots with salaries. Zombies with gym memberships.
We learnt to suppress, detach, and dissociate—and then call it “discipline.”

We were taught that emotion is the enemy, vulnerability is a virus, and softness is sin.

And for a while, it worked.

We built empires. We hit the gym. We played the role…

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