The government says "If you're not doing anything wrong, you shouldn't have anything to hide. If a redhead works at a bakery Does that make him a ginger bread man? If a 17 year old uses instagram to take a nude pic Getting stoned makes you think you can't do things but you can Getting drunk makes you think you can do things but you can't. If a child conceived by rape is a blessing from God Does that mean rapists are Angels doing God's work on earth?
That continued dependency is deeply unpleasant, way less glamorous than dodging bullets or suddenly knowing kung fu, and somebody under the influence of the system might come along and rip out your brainstem. But recognizing that you still have to work within the system in order to create systemic change is part of being someone who favors the red pill. And I don't disagree. Of course there are systems that we can't escape from and that we have to fight against from the inside.
I guess my problem with just saying, "yep, the red pill is better" is that the red pill is now something that exists in the real world. Its meaning has been totally corrupted and co-opted by message boards and people who define "truth" as something terrifying according to their own ideologies. With that in mind, it's hard to talk about the Aristotelian ideal of the blue or red pill as it was meant to be. Now it's something else.
The red pill is now conspiracy theories and hatred, and oftentimes muting them sounds like a good idea. What does that make the blue pill? It's too far from the original meaning to suddenly define the blue pill as truth, as opposed to the red pills conspiratorial agenda, but I think there's something to the idea that the blue pill could be something like the state of ignorance—or safetly, bliss, etc.
Sign me up. Ellis: OK, that made me laugh. And If I could blue pill away all my lurking in the internet's worst corners, I'd seriously consider it. Without question, being constantly buffeted by online toxicity has made me a more cynical, more anxious person. But also, I learned valuable stuff—terrible glimpses into the United States' fractured soul, misinformation and propaganda networks—in my time there. I know probably better than most that picking the red pill puts me in bad company.
Online, the red pill has become an emblem of misogyny and white supremacy because bigots mistake their own prejudices for inconvenient truths. Sounds ridiculous and it is , but this reading of Neo's choice is so widespread that it's made its way to some very unlikely places—like Kanye West 's Twitter account. You're absolutely right, Emily: Calling yourself "red pilled" is now in very poor taste.
But to me, the unfortunate context the red pill has acquired since The Matrix 's release doesn't keep it from being the right choice. Why let trolls' misguided self-glorification ruin a perfectly good concept? Come on, those guys aren't Morpheus. It's not truth they're peddling. It's propaganda. If anything, they're Agent Smith—and truth is how good people beat them.
Dreyfuss: I'm with you that it's the right choice in the movie. But man, if I could blue pill my way onto a commune where there's no internet access, and no constant stream of bad news in my feed, no worrying that any day now my son is going to get indoctrinated into some cult on YouTube, oof, that sounds lovely. It's exhausting to know just enough to be afraid and annoyed and outraged, but not really be able to meaningfully change things—at least not quickly. I mean, hell, even Neo is exhausted by his battling for truth.
Once he wakes up, everything only gets worse—and worse, and worse, and worse for three whole long movies. Neo himself barely survives the torture of enlightenment and the responsibility it demands. Was he showing solidarity with the UK Labour party? Almost certainly not. Any responses? Well, most notably from Ivanka Trump. What about the codirector of The Matrix, Lilly Wachowski? She must be pleased to see her film back in the spotlight?
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