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Severance & The Illusion of Smallness: Are You Living as an “Innie” in Your Own Life?

Apr 08, 2025
*Spoiler alert*

Mark S. wakes up every day inside Lumon Industries, clocking in, sitting at his desk, sorting numbers—except he doesn’t remember who he actually is.

Because Mark is an Innie. A manufactured version of himself, cut off from his real identity, fed the illusion that this small, narrow existence is all there is.

And the worst part? He doesn’t question it.

🔹 He’s been trained to believe his role is tiny and unimportant.
🔹 Conditioned to obey Kier Eagan’s corporate commandments.
🔹 Rewarded for not thinking too much, and not questioning anything.

He’s told that “the work is meaningful and important” even though he has no idea what it actually is.

And for a while? He accepts it.
Just like we all did.

🚨 The External Programming of Smallness
The world wants you to be an Innie.
It wants you to clock in, follow the rules, chase validation, and never, ever question the game.

📌 The Same Messages Lumon Feeds Its Workers Are The Ones You’ve Been Fed Your Whole Life:

🔴 “We praise Kier. We honor the Founders. We follow the rules.”
(Translation: Be grateful for what you have. Don’t question authority. Play by the system’s rules, and you’ll be rewarded with crumbs and pencil erasers and be glad.)

🔴 “Your Innie is not the same as your Outie.”
(Translation: Separate who you truly are from the role society assigned to you.)

🔴 “Kier gives us purpose.”
(Translation: Your worth is defined by external validation, not your own sovereignty.)

🔴 “Your actions here have deep meaning.”
(Translation: Even if you feel unfulfilled, keep convincing yourself that what you’re doing matters—so you never question the bigger picture.)

🔴 “Life at Lumon is life itself.”
(Translation: There is nothing outside of this system. Stay in your lane. Don’t even think about leaving.)

💀 Sound familiar? This isn’t just corporate propaganda.
It’s society’s programming. The belief system designed to keep you small, obedient, and never fully in your power.

🚀 The “Outie” Reality They Don’t Want You to See
When Helly R wakes up on the table for the first time, she doesn’t accept the role she’s been given.

She fights.
She questions.
She tries to escape—again and again.

Because she knows—on some level—that she’s not meant to be just a worker, just a cog in the system, just an obedient little Innie doing Kier’s bidding.

💡 This is what waking up looks like in real life, too.

📌 Signs You’re Becoming an “Outie” in Your Own Life:

🔥 You start questioning everything you’ve been taught.
🔥 You stop asking for permission to take up space.
🔥 You realize worthiness was never something to earn—it was your default setting.
🔥 You wake up and say “Actually? F*ck this, I’m writing my own reality.”

Because once you start seeing the illusion, you can’t unsee it.

Just like Mark’s Innie. The moment he discovers his Outie lost his wife—that the unsevereds in Lumon are hiding something massive—his entire programming starts to crack.

🛑 The Final Question: Are You Going to Stay Asleep? Or Are You Ready to Wake the F*ck Up?

Lumon wants its employees severed. The world wants YOU severed from your own power.

🚀 Drop a 🔥 in the comments if you’re DONE playing the role they assigned you.

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