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.
Can someone please explain the red and blue pills?
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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.