![]() ![]() The blue allows the protagonist to remain in a comfortable delusion spared from facing the horrors. The red reveals the world for what it truly is an artificial construct of machines which have enslaved humanity. ![]() ![]() In the original Matrix, the protagonist is invited to choose between a red and blue pill. So what’s my drug of choice? I surely participate in the collective red-pill illusion, that we see things as they really are. The idea of the red pill is a key example. You can likewise be “ green-pilled” (appalled by the ravages of climate change), “ yellow-pilled” (have your belief system shattered), or, inevitably, “pillpilled,” spotted on Twitter last year: My love of Xanax and Ox圜ontin has lead me to become Pillpilled.” I refer you to the recent article in Bitcoin Magazine, “How To More Effectively Orange-Pill Your Friends and Family,” written by a “diehard bitcoin maximalist” evangelizer. Or that you acknowledge the “truth” that bitcoin - recently likened in these pages to a Ponzi scheme - is the Currency of Destiny. Edgemar tells Quaid he is suffering from a delusion caused by acute neurochemical trauma and the first step to wake up from this delusion is to swallow a red capsule Edgemar gives him. In the 1999 movie The Matrix, the protagonist is presented with a choice: Take a red pill or a blue pill. First, that you follow the Orange One, i.e., Donald Trump. Like lots of memes, this one comes from pop culture. Have you been orange-pilled? That can mean two things. The blue pill ('no, I dont believe any of this, and I dont want to learn more') means he wakes up in his bed in the matrix, still a corporate drone. “White-pilled” means the opposite, the Urban Dictionary explains: “The moment or series of events by which a person abandons despair and surrenders to the inevitability of hope not out of sheer optimism, but from facing difficulty and nihilism head-on through the use of reason and inquiry.” ![]()
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