![]() ![]() The blue-pilled amongst us do not take kindly to those on the fringe or ascribe to ideas and philosophies which sit outside the Overton Window, a philosophical construct positing that anything that sits on either side of it should not be accepted by consensus. Those who take the blue pill are content and happy in their everyday lives and take what they read and hear on mainstream news as verbatim. Those who take the red pill are those who are inquisitive and feel that it is not enough to rely on what they hear, see or believe. Parallels may be drawn from the movie to our reality. Something like that, but in all, it’s a great movie. Failing to do so, would cause death in his actual body because the brain would interpret this as an actual death and would shut down the body. Knowing that this world is made up and not real, Neo is taught to adapt how to dodge their bullets by seemingly defying the law of physics within this blue-pilled world, much like being in a lucid dream, to believe that it is not real. Not long after does Neo realise that he is not very welcome wandering around behind the scenes and is thereafter chased by unsmiling men in black suits whilst in the Matrix. Those taking the red pill detach themselves from the Matrix and become explorers in the alien world of true reality. The superior beings, in this case, are strange looking aliens flying around in weird looking machines harvesting row after endless row of human bodies wired up to the great machine known as The Matrix. In essence, those who take the blue pill are prisoners and trapped, unaware that there is a superior intelligence manipulating the puppet strings. There is no access to what lies beyond including any knowledge what controls the world from behind the scenes. The mind of someone taking the blue pill is locked into the world in which it is pre-programmed with. By taking the blue pill, one’s mind cannot distinguish what is real or unreal. For those taking the blue pill, the world as it is experienced is perceived as being real. Not long after taking the red pill, Neo is aware that he has entered a very strange world where the laws of physics can be broken and controlled, at least in his mind. Taking the blue pill wouldn’t leave much of a story, would it? After a little hesitancy, Neo decides to ingest the red pill. He warns him that it is an arduous journey, but all will be revealed. However, taking the red pill will throw Neo into the workings of what goes behind the scenes of the normal life we live in. He explains that taking the blue pill will make him forget this little encounter and return blissfully but ignorantly into the normal world, where life, as we know it, continues its course. Morpheus extends his arms out and offers to Neo, a blue pill and a red pill, asking him which one he would like to take. A young overly curious computer hacker called Neo, played by Keanu Reeves, finds himself approached by a master hacker called Morpheus, played by Laurence Fishburne. It all started with the sci-fi adventure classic from 1999, The Matrix, one of the most exciting blockbusters in its genre. What does it mean? It all started with The Matrix One might have come across these terms at some point in a conversation or across an article or during a podcast, especially during the last three years of the pandemic and the rise of dangerously imbalanced and tyrannical world leaders with a lust for power. It’s time to talk about blue pills and red pills. Made famous by The Matrix, how does the analogy of the red pill and the blue pill work in today’s society? ![]()
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