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[ookyc]

Come Undone

Listening to Duran Duran’s Come Undone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICnlyNUt_0o

“Who do you need? Who do you love? When you come undone...”

I have been grateful many times in this lifetime to have come undone. And every time, I was warned to be careful with that gift. Because when it comes undone, they'll be able to see what is inside. But isn’t that what love is all about? Coming as you are !

[caesarandthecity]

The Filter is the Cage: How the Matrix Steals Your Face, Time, and Truth

The Filter is the Cage: How the Matrix Steals Your Face, Time, and Truth

You know what’s wild? Everything’s a circus now. Not just the world out there — but even the inside of people. It’s like they’re all addicted to being seen, to performing, to showing off a life they’re not even living. But when you really start waking up... when you stop playing the clown… You see it all. The mask, the loop, the lie.

Here’s the real punch: Most people are not trying to be happy. They’re trying to be validated. They’re starving for attention, not for love. And definitely not for truth.

Let’s break it down.

We live in a generation that works itself into the grave just to maintain an image. You see it: people busting their asses at jobs they hate, maxing out credit cards, posing next to cars they don’t own, living in apartments that drain their souls, just to keep the illusion of lifestyle alive. But behind the curtain? It’s not joy. It’s not freedom. It’s emptiness dressed in designer labels.

And the worst part is — most of them know. Deep down, they feel the glitch. But instead of breaking the system, they double down on the illusion. More content. More filters. More noise. More hiding.

The Matrix, my friend, doesn’t destroy you with bombs. It destroys you with distractions. It feeds you stimulation, comparison, dopamine hits. It reprograms your nervous system to confuse external validation with internal worth.

You don’t need bars when your mind is the prison.

That’s why being yourself is so threatening to the system. Because authenticity is rebellion. When you don’t crave the spotlight, when you don’t beg to be seen, when you walk simple, real, and raw — you burn their entire model to the ground.

Because here’s the thing: reality doesn’t need a filter. Truth doesn’t need marketing. And love doesn’t need to be posted.

But then it hits you... that strange hunger. Not just the hunger in your stomach. I’m talking about that spiritual hunger — the one that shows up after you unplug. When you’ve had a taste of silence. When you’ve lived without the scroll, the likes, the cheap applause.

You start to crave depth. But the Matrix will whisper: "Come back. Post something. Feed the avatar. Let them see you again."

And if you’re not careful, you’ll fall for it. Because belonging is addictive. Even if it’s fake.

But let me drop this bomb right here: If you have to betray yourself to belong, you never truly belonged.

Let’s talk about filters now — the silent assassins.

They’re not “just for fun.” They’re tools of dissociation, plain and simple.

They erase pores, wrinkles, realness, time. They keep your face frozen in a lie, while your soul ages in silence.

What they call “enhancement” is actually exile. Exile from your own face. Your own process. Your own evolution. And over time, this disconnect breeds self-hatred. You don’t recognize yourself anymore without the mask. You feel ugly in your own skin. That’s not self-love — that’s visual witchcraft.

Every filter is a spell. Every smooth-skin effect is a pixelated curse. And every second you see yourself through it, your nervous system encodes a lie as truth.

And then there's the time distortion.

Those fast-edited videos, those hyper-cut scenes with music and flashy text? They rewire your sense of time. You start thinking real life is too slow. Too boring. Too unproductive.

You lose your grip on the now. You lose your connection to your body. You forget how to just be. And when that happens — you’re not living anymore, you’re just performing routines for an algorithm.

The worst part? You call it life. You call it fun. You even call it “content creation.” But it’s not content. It’s soul extraction.

See, the Matrix doesn’t care if you’re rich or poor, online or offline. It only cares if you’re awake. Because the moment you wake up, you become unprogrammable. And that terrifies them.

The truth is brutal: Every time you post a fake smile, you kill your real joy. Every time you put on a filter, you reject the beauty of your raw reflection. Every time you let the algorithm decide your worth, you shrink your soul to fit a box it was never meant for.

You want to be free? Then stop hiding.

Show your real face. Speak with your real voice. Let your aging, changing, breaking, growing self be seen — not for applause, but for liberation.

This world doesn’t need another pretty illusion. It needs you. Raw. Untouched. Alive.

And if one day you feel tempted to return to that synthetic “social” world, ask yourself: Am I feeding my soul? Or am I feeding the machine?

Because the truth is this: The Matrix doesn’t collapse when you fight it. It collapses when you stop participating.

Walk away. Stand still. Unplug. And you’ll hear it — that sacred silence underneath all the noise. That’s where you meet yourself again.

A verdade te liberta acesse >>> The Black Box

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[vertariasb]

RAW POWER🧘🏿‍♂️I accept myself in its purist form. I respect the the journey, fear doesn’t have a space. We are equipped with the good ish in life to thrive. #photography #portrait #shotonaniphone #instagay #gay #austintexas #queer #body #raw #power #thrive #rawself #noFilter (at Austin, Texas)