Can someone please explain the red and blue pills?
I hear these referred to occasionally, but I don't really understand what people are talking about.
I don't feel like using Google, like I probably should.
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Tealights
It's a Matrix reference.
To simplify, think of it as asking if you want the truth (red pill) or the lie (blue pill).
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fakeaccount3
It's mostly used by mentally ill nerds who took some gay 90s movie way too seriously and use fantasy to cope with their insecurities.
according to them:
red pill = men who can't get laid and have become bitter about it
blue pill = everyone else; functional members of society (who they hate out of jealousy)outside of that context, i believe it's something like red pill = realist; blue pill = optimist. Idk, didn't watch the movie.
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Algum
I understand the debate between optimistic verses realistic, and that people who are overly optimistic can often wish for things that are unlikely or even impossible. But, not every optimistic wish in history has been unanswered. The realists often have leaned towards being entirely too negative, to where they can easily become viewed as pessimistic instead of realistic. That being said though, many realists are pessimistic over things that often have been or likely will be and are true, so I can't say that I cannot ever relate to where they're coming from. Since surprisingly good things can happen, although not nearly as often as many optimists wish for, I'd say that the best way to be is to hope for good things while at the same time to not ever lean onto that hope to where you're expecting it.
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jethro
One pill makes you larger, and one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you, don't do anything at allGo ask Alice, when she's ten feet tall
And if you go chasing rabbits, and you know you're going to fall
Tell 'em a hookah-smoking caterpillar has given you the callAnd call Alice, when she was just small
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lonewolf1253
Reds are Sodium Seconal and the blue ones are Viagra. Take the reds to sleep and the blue ones to fuck. If your a male, that is
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Hateful1
The origin is found in the movie The Matrix. A group finds a person they want to rescue from the Matrix (Keanu Reeves). Before they rescue him they give him one last chance to turn back and live a normal life. The Morpheus character, the leader, offers him a blue pill. If he takes it he stays in the Matrix and goes no with his life. He then offers a red pill. If Keanu's character takes this pill he will be removed from the Matrix and will get to see it for what it is.
Later it the blue/red dichotomy was adopted by the MRA, specifically MGTOW, as representative of modern societies views of men and masculinity. Later "The Red Pill" was also used by a film maker, Cassie Jaye, as the title for a documentary about the men's rights movement. Which I suggest everyone watches.
This documentary is so controversial it was and still is banned in some countries, like Australia. And it's only message is maybe men should have some rights and we should talk about this.
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Hateful1
It's a loosely organized group called "Men Going There Own Way" who's basic principle is a statement of self-ownership, where the modern man preserves and protects his own sovereignty above all else. I must say that I don't agree with every one of these guys but many of them make sense.
https://www.mgtow.com/
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I've never heard of the theories presented here. How people use it on 4chan or HDL is:
Redpilled: Right-wing, conservative, traditional valuesBluepilled: Left-wing, democratic, free from constraints
People refer to it as redpilled being positive whereas bluepilled is negative.
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MrDexter
Matrix has blue and red. One shows you the truth and the other let's you stay in the matrix.
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megadriver
Wise man once said, You take the blue pill, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe, you take the red pill and you stay in wonderland. You fly a hovercraft, make love to Carrie Anne Moss, play with slow motion and fight a guy who loves saying your last name.
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rayb12
If you are familiar with the garden of eden story from genesis, the red pill is eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil where the blue pill is not eating the fruit and remaining in eden.
The notion of the two pills implies that what we see as reality is not what truly is, and that we have a choice to awaken to truth or remain in what is a lie without learning how it is a lie.
This concept exists in Hinduism as well and could be attributed to nearly all spiritual thought by some means.The movie The Matrix was what introduced the pill analogy. If you are not familiar "the matrix" refers to the false world that we percieve as truth, and a character is offered the choice to unplug from the matrix (redpill) or remain (bluepill).
This concept was later adopted in response to the normalization of radical progressive ideologies in media and western universities. Particularly in regards to their implications towards men's issues.
While this may sound like quite a departure from what the film was about, which it is, the overlap is this sense of forbidden fruit and shattering a perceived reality to replace it with reality itself.Comment Hidden ( show )