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Red and blue capsule pills

Das Begriffspaar rote Pille und blaue Pille ist eine gebräuchliche Metapher, um die Entscheidung zwischen zwei Handlungsoptionen zu symbolisieren. Das Wählen der roten Pille steht dabei dafür, eine unangenehme oder lebensverändernde Wahrheit zu akzeptieren, während das Wählen der blauen Pille dafür steht, in einer angenehmeren Scheinrealität zu verbleiben. Die Metapher geht zurück auf den Film Matrix aus dem Jahr 1999, in dem die Pillen als Requisiten verwendet werden.

Verwendung in Matrix

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In dem Film Matrix aus dem Jahr 1999 wird dem Protagonisten Neo (gespielt von Keanu Reeves) von Morpheus (gespielt von Laurence Fishburne) offenbart, dass die Welt, in der er zu leben glaubt, lediglich eine computergenerierte Simulation (die sogenannte Matrix) ist. Morpheus bietet Neo zwei Pillen, eine rote und eine blaue Pille, zur Wahl an. Durch die Wahl der roten Pille werde Neo aus der Simulation erwachen und die Wahrheit über die Matrix erfahren. Durch die blaue Pille werde Neo dagegen diese Begegnung vergessen und wieder in sein unwissendes Dasein in der Matrix zurückkehren. Neo entscheidet sich für die rote Pille und erwacht kurz darauf in der Realität.

An essay written by Russell Blackford discusses the red and blue pills, questioning whether if a person were fully informed they would take the red pill, opting for the real world, believing that the choice of physical reality over a digital simulation is not so beneficial as to be valid for all people. Both Neo and another character, Cypher (Joe Pantoliano), take the red pill over the blue pill, though later in the first Matrix film, the latter demonstrates regret for having made that choice, saying that if Morpheus fully informed him of the situation, Cypher would have told him to "shove the red pill right up [his] ass." When Cypher subsequently makes a deal with the machines to return to the Matrix and forget everything he had learned, he says, "Ignorance is bliss." Blackford argues that the Matrix films set things up so that even if Neo fails, the taking of the red pill is worthwhile because he lives and dies authentically. Blackford and science-fiction writer James Patrick Kelly feel that The Matrix stacks the deck against machines and their simulated world.[1]

Matrix Warrior: Being the One author Jake Horsley compared the red pill to LSD, citing a scene where Neo forms his own world outside of the Matrix. When he asks Morpheus if he could return, Morpheus responds by asking him if he would want to. Horsley also describes the blue pill as addictive, calling The Matrix series a continuous series of choices between taking the blue pill and not taking it. He adds that the habits and routines of people inside the Matrix are merely the people dosing themselves with the blue pill. While he describes the blue pill as a common thing, he states that the red pill is one of a kind, and something someone may not even find.[2]

Literary and philosophical allusions

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Vorlage:See also The Matrix, and its sequels, contain numerous references to Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its 1872 sequel Through the Looking-Glass.[3] The Alice in Wonderland metaphor is made explicit in Morpheus's speech to Neo, with the phrases "white rabbit" and "down the rabbit hole", as well as the description of Neo's path of discovery as "Wonderland". The concept of the red and blue pills has also been speculated to be a reference to the scene in Alice in Wonderland where Alice finds a cake labelled "Eat Me" and a potion labelled "Drink Me": eating the cake makes Alice grow to an enormous size, while drinking the potion makes her tiny.[3]

The Matrix also makes references to historical myths and philosophy, including gnosticism, existentialism, and nihilism.[4][5] The central concept of the film has been compared to Plato's Allegory of the Cave,[6][7] Zhuangzi's "Zhuangzi dreamed he was a butterfly", René Descartes's skepticism[8][9] and evil demon, Kant's reflections on the Phenomenon versus the Ding an sich, Robert Nozick's "experience machine",[10] the concept of a simulated reality and the brain in a vat thought experiment.[11][12]

The Wachowskis asked star Keanu Reeves to read three books before filming: Simulacra and Simulation (1981) by Jean Baudrillard, Out of Control (1992) by Kevin Kelly, and Introducing Evolution (1999) by Dylan Evans.[13]

Die rote Pille als Allegorie auf Transgeschlechtlichkeit

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Es wird spekuliert, dass die Wahl zwischen roter Pille und blauer Pille in Matrix eine Anspielung auf Transgeschlechtlichkeit ist, insbesondere da die Autoren des Drehbuchs, Lana und Lilly Wachowski, transgeschlechtlich sind.[14][15] In den 1990er Jahren beinhaltete eine verbreitete Therapie zur Geschlechtsangleichung die Einnahme von Premarin, einer roten Tablette, während ein häufig "nicht-geouteten" Transpersonen verschriebenes Antidepressivum, Prozac, in blauen Tabletten verabreicht wurde.[16] Lilly Wachowski gab im August 2020 an, bewusst Allegorien zur Transgeschlechtlichkeit in das Drehbuch eingearbeitet zu haben.[17]

In Freudian psychology

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In Freudian psychology, the corresponding principles are the reality principle and the pleasure principle.[18][19][20][21][22]

As political or ideological metaphor

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The concept of red and blue pills has since been widely used as a political metaphor in the United States, especially among online culture, where "taking the red pill" or being "red-pilled" means becoming aware of purported political biases inherent in society, including in the mainstream media, and supposedly thereby becoming an independent thinker; while "taking the blue pill" or being "blue-pilled" means unquestioningly accepting these purported biases.[23][24] The supposed truths revealed to those who refer to themselves as "red pilled" often include conspiracy theories, as well as antisemitic, white supremacist, homophobic and misogynistic beliefs.[24][25]

Because of its common usage as a self-identifier among the alt-right and others who subscribe to right wing beliefs, the term "red pilled" is sometimes used by others to refer to the right.[26]

The first known political use of this metaphor is in the 2006 essay "The Red Pill" by University of Colorado sociology professor Kathleen J. Tierney, in which she argued that those who felt that the U.S. government had a poor response to Hurricane Katrina should "take the red pill" and realize that "post-September 11 policies and plans have actually made the nation more vulnerable, both to natural disasters and to future terrorist attacks."[27]

The metaphor was then popularized in a different context by neo-reactionary blogger Curtis Yarvin.[28] He first used it in a 2007 blog post written under the pseudonym Mencius Moldbug, and titled "The Case Against Democracy: Ten Red Pills"; in it he argues that trying to convince a Westerner that democracy is bad is like trying to convince "a Catholic in 16th-century Spain... to stop believing in Catholicism", but he then offers ten "red pill" arguments (along with their "blue pill" counterparts) to make a case against democracy.[29]

In 2017, political activist and commentator Candace Owens launched Red Pill Black, a website and YouTube channel that promote black conservatism in the United States.[30]

In the manosphere

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In some parts of the men's rights movement, manosphere, and the anti-feminism communities, the term "red pill" (sometimes written as the "redpill") is used as a metaphor for the specific moment when a person comes to believe that certain gender roles they are expected to conform to, such as marriage and monogamy, are intended for the benefit of women alone, rather than for mutual benefit.[31][32] In 2016, a documentary titled The Red Pill, about the men's rights movement, was released.

Other pills, as an extension

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This metaphor was extended; where you can also become either black-pilled (pessimistic or apathetic about the future), or white-pilled (hopeful about the future or believing change is possible.) This metaphor has been embraced by commentators including libertarian Michael Malice, whose 2022 book The White Pill advocates the latter point of view.[33] Malice defines the term as, “It is possible that we will lose, it is impossible that we must lose.”

Blackpill in the incel community

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The metaphor of the blackpill was first popularized by the incel-related blog Omega Virgin Revolt.[34] In this parlance, being red-pilled means believing concepts like male oppression and female hypergamy, while being black-pilled means coming to believe that there is little that low-status or unattractive men can do to improve their prospects for romantic or sexual relationships with women.[35]

  • The 1990 film Total Recall has a scene where the hero (played by Arnold Schwarzenegger) is asked to swallow a red pill in order to symbolize his desire to return to reality from a dream-like fantasy.
  • In the 2004 book The Art of the Start, author Guy Kawasaki uses the red pill as an analog to the situation of leaders of new organizations, in that they face the same choice to either live in reality or fantasy. He adds that if they want to be successful, they have to take the red pill and see how deep the rabbit hole goes.[36]
  • Until they were removed from the Maemo operating system application installer in January 2010, certain advanced features were unlocked by a "Red Pill Mode" Easter egg to prevent accidental use by novice users but make them readily available to experienced users. This was activated by starting to add a catalog whose URL was "matrix" and then choosing to cancel. A dialog box would appear asking "Which pill?" with the choices "Red" or "Blue", allowing the user to enter red pill mode.[37][38] In "Red Pill" mode, the installer allows the user to view and reconfigure system packages whose existence it normally does not acknowledge. In Blue Pill mode the installer displays only software installed by a user, creating the illusion that system software does not exist on the system.
  • In the 2013 movie version of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, when Ben Stiller's character lands at Nuuk in Greenland, he asks the man in the airport booth: "Do you have any cars available?" "Yeah, we have a blue one and a red one", the man replies. "I'll take the red one", says Walter.[39] This is also "the final scene in the trailer: a quirky and charming sequence on its own, even before the viewer recognizes the built-in riff on the famous "Red/Blue Pill" exchange from The Matrix".[40][41] "The choice between the red and blue car at the rental car lot is worthy of mention, if only because it almost candidly pulls the idea from the red pill of The Matrix. Two jelly bean, or pill, shaped cars Vorlage:Bracket, red and blue; the only thing missing is Lawrence Vorlage:Sic Fishburne working the counter".[42] "The passage connecting reality to illusion is often visualised using tangible things and physical environments [as] Neo took the red pill in The Matrix."[43]
  • The 2023 film Barbie contains an allusion to the dilemma. In one scene, Barbie is given the choice between continuing to live obliviously in Barbieland (represented by a pink stiletto heel) and entering the real world (represented by a plain Birkenstock sandal).[44] At the end of the movie, in which Barbie now lives in the real world as a human, she is shown wearing light pink Birkenstock sandals.
  • Large sections of the lyrics of the 2004 Bloc Party song "She's Hearing Voices" include the lines "red pill, blue pill".
  • In the game Cyberpunk 2077, the character Misty gives V two medications, one orange (Omega Blockers), and one blue (Pseudoendotrizine). The blue pill slows down the process of Johnny Silverhand's personality engram taking over V's mind. The orange one speeds the process up.
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  5. Journal of Religion & Film: Wake Up! Gnosticism and Buddhism in The Matrix by Frances Flannery-Daily and Rachel Wagner. In: unomaha.edu. Archiviert vom Original am 3. März 2016; abgerufen am 29. November 2015.
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  12. Allan Hazlett: Philosophers Explore The Matrix. In: NDPR.nd.edu. 15. Januar 2006 (nd.edu [abgerufen am 4. Januar 2015]).
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  14. Andrea Long Chu: Females. verso, 2019, ISBN 978-1-78873-737-1 (versobooks.com [abgerufen am 7. Juli 2020]).
  15. Laura Dale: With The Matrix 4 coming, let's talk about how the first movie is a trans allegory. SyFy Channel, 13. September 2019, abgerufen am 7. Juli 2020.
  16. Andrea Long Chu: What We Can Learn About Gender From The Matrix. Vulture, 7. Februar 2019, abgerufen am 7. Juli 2020.
  17. The Matrix was a metaphor for transgender identity, director confirms. In: The Independent. 5. August 2020, abgerufen am 30. Oktober 2020.
  18. Mick Cooper: Integrating Counselling & Psychotherapy. Directionality, Synergy and Social Change. SAGE, Thousand Oaks, California 2019, ISBN 978-1-5264-8118-4, S. 85 (google.com): „Nozick suggests, like Keanu Reeves choosing the red pill over the blue pill in The Matrix, that most of us would want reality over pleasure.“
  19. Slavoj Zizek: The Parallax View. MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts 2009, ISBN 978-0-262-26518-8, S. 312 (google.com – [2006]): „Neo has to choose between the red pill and the blue pill; his choice is between Truth and Pleasure: the Real, or persistence in the illusion [of] the pleasure principle.“
  20. Mark Romel: The Seer of Unreality. The Hyperreality Wars. Magus Books, 2019 (google.com): „Imagine being stuck in the Matrix, knowing it was fake, but without any red pill to give you access to the reality principle.“
  21. Russell J.A. Kilbourn: Re-Writing "Reality": Reading The Matrix. In: Revue Canadienne d'Études cinématographiques / Canadian Journal of Film Studies. 9. Jahrgang, Nr. 2, Oktober 2000, S. 43–54, doi:10.3138/cjfs.9.2.43, JSTOR:24402660 (google.com): „Matrix is false, but also providing the Matrix with its "reality principle".“
  22. Rob Weatherill: Lacan in the End Times. In the Name of the Absent Father. Taylor & Francis, 2022, ISBN 978-1-00-065485-1, S. 16 (google.com): „[In] the choice between a red pill and a blue pill...blue pill represents a beautiful prison of the dream pleasure-principle oriented world.“
  23. Bharath Ganesh: The Ungovernability of Digital Hate Culture. In: Journal of International Affairs. 71. Jahrgang, Nr. 2, 19. Dezember 2018, S. 30–49 (columbia.edu): „Despite their tenuous coalitions and the fragmentation and fracturing that many observers of the “alt-right” have identified, digital hate culture does have a “common spirit” that is based on the tropes of the Red Pill and white genocide. ... Often used as a reference to a state of mind, the sense of being “red-pilled” in the context of digital hate culture refers to the idea that leftist political ideologies (which, for the purveyors of hate refers to the entire spectrum of feminists, Marxists, socialists, and liberals) have deluded the population and conspired to destroy Western civilization and culture.“
  24. a b Darlena Cunha: Red pills and dog whistles: It is more than 'just the internet' In: Aljazeera, September 6, 2020. Abgerufen im March 17, 2023 „'You take the blue pill, the story ends. You wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe,' Laurence Fishburne’s character Morpheus tells Neo. 'You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.' The hero takes the red pill, which is meaningful to these groups who feel the world has mistreated them. Gathering in online echo chambers, they feel like heroes for seeing the world for what it is, for being brave enough to handle it and strong enough to show others. Little do they realise that their red pill of truth often leads them down a path of delusion, the very thing they think they are rallying the rest of the world against. ... They hang out on YouTube or in internet forums and weave a web of conspiracy theory around themselves, in which they are the ultimate victims, and their scapegoats some unlikely victors in the game of life – groups typically marginalised by society: Jewish people, Black people, other people of colour, and, of course, women.“ 
  25. Becca Lewis, Alice Marwick: Taking the Red Pill: Ideological Motivations for Spreading Online Disinformation. In: University of Pennsylvania Annenberg School for Communication. Dezember 2017 (tiara.org [PDF]): „As group members are radicalized – a process they refer to as “redpilling” – their ideologies and distrust of the media feed on each other and ultimately inform a broader shift in their understanding of reality and veracity. As a result, they may view highly ideological and factually incorrect information as truthful, thus complicating understandings of disinformation.“
  26. Caleb Madison: How We Swallowed Redpilled Whole In: The Atlantic, December 13, 2021. Abgerufen im March 17, 2023 
  27. Kathleen J. Tierney: The Red Pill. In: Items. Social Science Research Council, 11. Juni 2006;.
  28. Curtis Yarvin wants American democracy toppled. He has some prominent Republican fans. In: Vox. 24. Oktober 2022, abgerufen am 18. Dezember 2022.
  29. Mencius Moldbug: The Case Against Democracy: Ten Red Pills. In: Unqualified Reservations. 24. April 2007;.
  30. Elizabeth Ames: Liberals Sick of the Alt-Left Are Taking 'the Red Pill'. In: Fox News. 13. September 2017, abgerufen am 19. Februar 2020.
  31. Men's rights movement: why it is so controversial? In: The Week. 19. Februar 2015, abgerufen am 1. April 2015.
  32. Jeff Sharlet: Are You Man Enough for the Men's Rights Movement? In: GQ. März 2015, abgerufen am 1. April 2015.
  33. Getting White Pilled With Michael Malice. In: Federalist Radio Hour. Ricochet, 12. November 2020;.
  34. Nikhil Sonnad, Tim Squirrell: The alt-right is creating its own dialect. Here's the dictionary In: Quartz, October 30, 2017. Abgerufen im June 8, 2018 
  35. Zoe Williams: 'Raw hatred': why the 'incel' movement targets and terrorises women In: The Guardian, April 25, 2018. Abgerufen im April 26, 2018 
  36. Kawasaki, Guy: The art of the start: the time-tested, battle-hardened guide for anyone starting anything. Penguin, 2004, ISBN 978-1-59184-056-5, 92 (archive.org).
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Red and blue capsule pills

The red pill and blue pill are metaphorical terms representing a choice between learning an unsettling or life-changing truth by taking the red pill or remaining in the contented experience of ordinary reality with the blue pill. The pills were used as props in the 1999 film The Matrix.

In the film The Matrix, the main character Neo (played by Keanu Reeves) is offered the choice between a red pill and a blue pill by rebel leader Morpheus (played by Laurence Fishburne). Morpheus says "You take the blue pill... the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill... you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes." It is implied that the blue pill is a sedative that would cause Neo to think that all his most recent experiences were a hallucination, so that he can go back to living in the Matrix's simulated reality. The red pill, on the other hand, serves as a "location device" to locate the subject's body in the real world and to prepare them to be "unplugged" from the Matrix.[1]

Neo takes the red pill and awakens in the real world, where he is forcibly ejected from the liquid-filled chamber in which he has obliviously been lying. After his rescue and convalescence aboard Morpheus's ship, Morpheus shows him the true nature of the Matrix: a detailed computer simulation of Earth at the end of the 20th century (the actual year, though not known for sure, is suggested within the original movie to be approximately 200 years later, though it is revealed through sequels The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions and The Animatrix that at least 700 years have passed). It has been created to keep the minds of humans docile while their bodies are stored in massive power plants, their body heat and bioelectricity consumed as power by the sentient machines that have enslaved them.[2]

Later Matrix films

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In the 2021 film The Matrix Resurrections, the Analyst uses blue pills to keep Neo's true memories suppressed in the guise of therapy sessions. Later, Neo takes another red pill before being freed from the Matrix once again by Bugs and her crew. In Trinity's case, she does not have to take the red pill again because of the way that Sati is freeing her from the Matrix. The red pills also allow friendly programs to leave the Matrix, as seen with the program version of Morpheus.

An essay written by Russell Blackford discusses the red and blue pills, questioning whether if a person were fully informed they would take the red pill, opting for the real world, believing that the choice of physical reality over a digital simulation is not so beneficial as to be valid for all people. Both Neo and another character, Cypher (Joe Pantoliano), take the red pill over the blue pill, though later in the first Matrix film, the latter demonstrates regret for having made that choice, saying that if Morpheus fully informed him of the situation, Cypher would have told him to "shove the red pill right up [his] ass." When Cypher subsequently makes a deal with the machines to return to the Matrix and forget everything he had learned, he says, "Ignorance is bliss." Blackford argues that the Matrix films set things up so that even if Neo fails, the taking of the red pill is worthwhile because he lives and dies authentically. Blackford and science-fiction writer James Patrick Kelly feel that The Matrix stacks the deck against machines and their simulated world.[3]

Matrix Warrior: Being the One author Jake Horsley compared the red pill to LSD, citing a scene where Neo forms his own world outside of the Matrix. When he asks Morpheus if he could return, Morpheus responds by asking him if he would want to. Horsley also describes the blue pill as addictive, calling The Matrix series a continuous series of choices between taking the blue pill and not taking it. He adds that the habits and routines of people inside the Matrix are merely the people dosing themselves with the blue pill. While he describes the blue pill as a common thing, he states that the red pill is one of a kind, and something someone may not even find.[4]

Literary and philosophical allusions

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Vorlage:See also The Matrix, and its sequels, contain numerous references to Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its 1872 sequel Through the Looking-Glass.[5] The Alice in Wonderland metaphor is made explicit in Morpheus's speech to Neo, with the phrases "white rabbit" and "down the rabbit hole", as well as the description of Neo's path of discovery as "Wonderland". The concept of the red and blue pills has also been speculated to be a reference to the scene in Alice in Wonderland where Alice finds a cake labelled "Eat Me" and a potion labelled "Drink Me": eating the cake makes Alice grow to an enormous size, while drinking the potion makes her tiny.[5]

The Matrix also makes references to historical myths and philosophy, including gnosticism, existentialism, and nihilism.[6][7] The central concept of the film has been compared to Plato's Allegory of the Cave,[8][9] Zhuangzi's "Zhuangzi dreamed he was a butterfly", René Descartes's skepticism[10][11] and evil demon, Kant's reflections on the Phenomenon versus the Ding an sich, Robert Nozick's "experience machine",[12] the concept of a simulated reality and the brain in a vat thought experiment.[13][14]

The Wachowskis asked star Keanu Reeves to read three books before filming: Simulacra and Simulation (1981) by Jean Baudrillard, Out of Control (1992) by Kevin Kelly, and Introducing Evolution (1999) by Dylan Evans.[15]

Red pill as transgender allegory

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Fan theories have suggested that the red pill may represent an allegory for transgender people or a story of Lana and Lilly Wachowski's history as coming out as transgender.[16][17] During the 1990s, a common transgender hormone therapy for trans women involved Premarin, a maroon tablet, while a common antidepressant prescribed to closeted trans women at the time, Prozac, was blue.[18] Lilly Wachowski stated in August 2020 that the filmmakers had intentionally included transgender themes in the film.[19]

In Freudian psychology

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In Freudian psychology, the corresponding principles are the reality principle and the pleasure principle.[20][21][22][23][24]

As political or ideological metaphor

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The concept of red and blue pills has since been widely used as a political metaphor in the United States, especially among online culture, where "taking the red pill" or being "red-pilled" means becoming aware of purported political biases inherent in society, including in the mainstream media, and supposedly thereby becoming an independent thinker; while "taking the blue pill" or being "blue-pilled" means unquestioningly accepting these purported biases.[25][26] The supposed truths revealed to those who refer to themselves as "red pilled" often include conspiracy theories, as well as antisemitic, white supremacist, homophobic and misogynistic beliefs.[26][27]

Because of its common usage as a self-identifier among the alt-right and others who subscribe to right wing beliefs, the term "red pilled" is sometimes used by others to refer to the right.[28]

The first known political use of this metaphor is in the 2006 essay "The Red Pill" by University of Colorado sociology professor Kathleen J. Tierney, in which she argued that those who felt that the U.S. government had a poor response to Hurricane Katrina should "take the red pill" and realize that "post-September 11 policies and plans have actually made the nation more vulnerable, both to natural disasters and to future terrorist attacks."[29]

The metaphor was then popularized in a different context by neo-reactionary blogger Curtis Yarvin.[30] He first used it in a 2007 blog post written under the pseudonym Mencius Moldbug, and titled "The Case Against Democracy: Ten Red Pills"; in it he argues that trying to convince a Westerner that democracy is bad is like trying to convince "a Catholic in 16th-century Spain... to stop believing in Catholicism", but he then offers ten "red pill" arguments (along with their "blue pill" counterparts) to make a case against democracy.[31]

In 2017, political activist and commentator Candace Owens launched Red Pill Black, a website and YouTube channel that promote black conservatism in the United States.[32]

In the manosphere

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In some parts of the men's rights movement, manosphere, and the anti-feminism communities, the term "red pill" (sometimes written as the "redpill") is used as a metaphor for the specific moment when a person comes to believe that certain gender roles they are expected to conform to, such as marriage and monogamy, are intended for the benefit of women alone, rather than for mutual benefit.[33][34] In 2016, a documentary titled The Red Pill, about the men's rights movement, was released.

Other pills, as an extension

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This metaphor was extended; where you can also become either black-pilled (pessimistic or apathetic about the future), or white-pilled (hopeful about the future or believing change is possible.) This metaphor has been embraced by commentators including libertarian Michael Malice, whose 2022 book The White Pill advocates the latter point of view.[35] Malice defines the term as, “It is possible that we will lose, it is impossible that we must lose.”

Blackpill in the incel community

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The metaphor of the blackpill was first popularized by the incel-related blog Omega Virgin Revolt.[36] In this parlance, being red-pilled means believing concepts like male oppression and female hypergamy, while being black-pilled means coming to believe that there is little that low-status or unattractive men can do to improve their prospects for romantic or sexual relationships with women.[37]

  • The 1990 film Total Recall has a scene where the hero (played by Arnold Schwarzenegger) is asked to swallow a red pill in order to symbolize his desire to return to reality from a dream-like fantasy.
  • In the 2004 book The Art of the Start, author Guy Kawasaki uses the red pill as an analog to the situation of leaders of new organizations, in that they face the same choice to either live in reality or fantasy. He adds that if they want to be successful, they have to take the red pill and see how deep the rabbit hole goes.[38]
  • Until they were removed from the Maemo operating system application installer in January 2010, certain advanced features were unlocked by a "Red Pill Mode" Easter egg to prevent accidental use by novice users but make them readily available to experienced users. This was activated by starting to add a catalog whose URL was "matrix" and then choosing to cancel. A dialog box would appear asking "Which pill?" with the choices "Red" or "Blue", allowing the user to enter red pill mode.[39][40] In "Red Pill" mode, the installer allows the user to view and reconfigure system packages whose existence it normally does not acknowledge. In Blue Pill mode the installer displays only software installed by a user, creating the illusion that system software does not exist on the system.
  • In the 2013 movie version of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, when Ben Stiller's character lands at Nuuk in Greenland, he asks the man in the airport booth: "Do you have any cars available?" "Yeah, we have a blue one and a red one", the man replies. "I'll take the red one", says Walter.[41] This is also "the final scene in the trailer: a quirky and charming sequence on its own, even before the viewer recognizes the built-in riff on the famous "Red/Blue Pill" exchange from The Matrix".[42][43] "The choice between the red and blue car at the rental car lot is worthy of mention, if only because it almost candidly pulls the idea from the red pill of The Matrix. Two jelly bean, or pill, shaped cars Vorlage:Bracket, red and blue; the only thing missing is Lawrence Vorlage:Sic Fishburne working the counter".[44] "The passage connecting reality to illusion is often visualised using tangible things and physical environments [as] Neo took the red pill in The Matrix."[45]
  • The 2023 film Barbie contains an allusion to the dilemma. In one scene, Barbie is given the choice between continuing to live obliviously in Barbieland (represented by a pink stiletto heel) and entering the real world (represented by a plain Birkenstock sandal).[46] At the end of the movie, in which Barbie now lives in the real world as a human, she is shown wearing light pink Birkenstock sandals.
  • Large sections of the lyrics of the 2004 Bloc Party song "She's Hearing Voices" include the lines "red pill, blue pill".
  • In the game Cyberpunk 2077, the character Misty gives V two medications, one orange (Omega Blockers), and one blue (Pseudoendotrizine). The blue pill slows down the process of Johnny Silverhand's personality engram taking over V's mind. The orange one speeds the process up.
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  1. Ian Nathan: The Matrix Review. In: Empire Online. Abgerufen am 29. Juli 2024.
  2. Steven Isaac: The Matrix. In: Plugged in. Abgerufen am 29. Juli 2024.
  3. Kapell, Matthew, Doty, William G: Jacking in to the Matrix franchise: cultural reception and interpretation. Bloomsbury Academic, 2004, ISBN 978-0-8264-1588-2 (google.com).
  4. Horsley, Jake: Matrix Warrior: Being the One. Macmillan, 2003, ISBN 978-0-312-32264-9, 125 (archive.org).
  5. a b Vorlage:Cite magazine
  6. Edward Rothstein: Philosophers Draw On a Film Drawing On Philosophers In: The New York Times, May 24, 2003. Abgerufen im February 8, 2021 
  7. Journal of Religion & Film: Wake Up! Gnosticism and Buddhism in The Matrix by Frances Flannery-Daily and Rachel Wagner. In: unomaha.edu. Archiviert vom Original am 3. März 2016; abgerufen am 29. November 2015.
  8. Glenn Yeffeth: Taking the Red Pill: Science, Philosophy and the Religion in the Matrix. BenBella Books, 2003, ISBN 978-1-932100-02-0, S. 152 (google.com).
  9. You Won't Know the Difference So You Can't Make the Choice. philosophynow.org;
  10. Dan O'Brien: An Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge. Polity, 2006, ISBN 978-0-7456-3316-9, S. 115 (google.com).
  11. Vorlage:Cite encyclopedia
  12. Christopher Grau: Philosophers Explore The Matrix. Oxford University Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-19-518107-4, S. 18– (google.com).
  13. The Brain in a Vat Argument. In: utm.edu.
  14. Allan Hazlett: Philosophers Explore The Matrix. In: NDPR.nd.edu. 15. Januar 2006 (nd.edu [abgerufen am 4. Januar 2015]).
  15. The Books: Matrix 'Inspirations'. In: The Matrix 101.
  16. Andrea Long Chu: Females. verso, 2019, ISBN 978-1-78873-737-1 (versobooks.com [abgerufen am 7. Juli 2020]).
  17. Laura Dale: With The Matrix 4 coming, let's talk about how the first movie is a trans allegory. SyFy Channel, 13. September 2019, abgerufen am 7. Juli 2020.
  18. Andrea Long Chu: What We Can Learn About Gender From The Matrix. Vulture, 7. Februar 2019, abgerufen am 7. Juli 2020.
  19. The Matrix was a metaphor for transgender identity, director confirms. In: The Independent. 5. August 2020, abgerufen am 30. Oktober 2020.
  20. Mick Cooper: Integrating Counselling & Psychotherapy. Directionality, Synergy and Social Change. SAGE, Thousand Oaks, California 2019, ISBN 978-1-5264-8118-4, S. 85 (google.com): „Nozick suggests, like Keanu Reeves choosing the red pill over the blue pill in The Matrix, that most of us would want reality over pleasure.“
  21. Slavoj Zizek: The Parallax View. MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts 2009, ISBN 978-0-262-26518-8, S. 312 (google.com – [2006]): „Neo has to choose between the red pill and the blue pill; his choice is between Truth and Pleasure: the Real, or persistence in the illusion [of] the pleasure principle.“
  22. Mark Romel: The Seer of Unreality. The Hyperreality Wars. Magus Books, 2019 (google.com): „Imagine being stuck in the Matrix, knowing it was fake, but without any red pill to give you access to the reality principle.“
  23. Russell J.A. Kilbourn: Re-Writing "Reality": Reading The Matrix. In: Revue Canadienne d'Études cinématographiques / Canadian Journal of Film Studies. 9. Jahrgang, Nr. 2, Oktober 2000, S. 43–54, doi:10.3138/cjfs.9.2.43, JSTOR:24402660 (google.com): „Matrix is false, but also providing the Matrix with its "reality principle".“
  24. Rob Weatherill: Lacan in the End Times. In the Name of the Absent Father. Taylor & Francis, 2022, ISBN 978-1-00-065485-1, S. 16 (google.com): „[In] the choice between a red pill and a blue pill...blue pill represents a beautiful prison of the dream pleasure-principle oriented world.“
  25. Bharath Ganesh: The Ungovernability of Digital Hate Culture. In: Journal of International Affairs. 71. Jahrgang, Nr. 2, 19. Dezember 2018, S. 30–49 (columbia.edu): „Despite their tenuous coalitions and the fragmentation and fracturing that many observers of the “alt-right” have identified, digital hate culture does have a “common spirit” that is based on the tropes of the Red Pill and white genocide. ... Often used as a reference to a state of mind, the sense of being “red-pilled” in the context of digital hate culture refers to the idea that leftist political ideologies (which, for the purveyors of hate refers to the entire spectrum of feminists, Marxists, socialists, and liberals) have deluded the population and conspired to destroy Western civilization and culture.“
  26. a b Darlena Cunha: Red pills and dog whistles: It is more than 'just the internet' In: Aljazeera, September 6, 2020. Abgerufen im March 17, 2023 „'You take the blue pill, the story ends. You wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe,' Laurence Fishburne’s character Morpheus tells Neo. 'You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.' The hero takes the red pill, which is meaningful to these groups who feel the world has mistreated them. Gathering in online echo chambers, they feel like heroes for seeing the world for what it is, for being brave enough to handle it and strong enough to show others. Little do they realise that their red pill of truth often leads them down a path of delusion, the very thing they think they are rallying the rest of the world against. ... They hang out on YouTube or in internet forums and weave a web of conspiracy theory around themselves, in which they are the ultimate victims, and their scapegoats some unlikely victors in the game of life – groups typically marginalised by society: Jewish people, Black people, other people of colour, and, of course, women.“ 
  27. Becca Lewis, Alice Marwick: Taking the Red Pill: Ideological Motivations for Spreading Online Disinformation. In: University of Pennsylvania Annenberg School for Communication. Dezember 2017 (tiara.org [PDF]): „As group members are radicalized – a process they refer to as “redpilling” – their ideologies and distrust of the media feed on each other and ultimately inform a broader shift in their understanding of reality and veracity. As a result, they may view highly ideological and factually incorrect information as truthful, thus complicating understandings of disinformation.“
  28. Caleb Madison: How We Swallowed Redpilled Whole In: The Atlantic, December 13, 2021. Abgerufen im March 17, 2023 
  29. Kathleen J. Tierney: The Red Pill. In: Items. Social Science Research Council, 11. Juni 2006;.
  30. Curtis Yarvin wants American democracy toppled. He has some prominent Republican fans. In: Vox. 24. Oktober 2022, abgerufen am 18. Dezember 2022.
  31. Mencius Moldbug: The Case Against Democracy: Ten Red Pills. In: Unqualified Reservations. 24. April 2007;.
  32. Elizabeth Ames: Liberals Sick of the Alt-Left Are Taking 'the Red Pill'. In: Fox News. 13. September 2017, abgerufen am 19. Februar 2020.
  33. Men's rights movement: why it is so controversial? In: The Week. 19. Februar 2015, abgerufen am 1. April 2015.
  34. Jeff Sharlet: Are You Man Enough for the Men's Rights Movement? In: GQ. März 2015, abgerufen am 1. April 2015.
  35. Getting White Pilled With Michael Malice. In: Federalist Radio Hour. Ricochet, 12. November 2020;.
  36. Nikhil Sonnad, Tim Squirrell: The alt-right is creating its own dialect. Here's the dictionary In: Quartz, October 30, 2017. Abgerufen im June 8, 2018 
  37. Zoe Williams: 'Raw hatred': why the 'incel' movement targets and terrorises women In: The Guardian, April 25, 2018. Abgerufen im April 26, 2018 
  38. Kawasaki, Guy: The art of the start: the time-tested, battle-hardened guide for anyone starting anything. Penguin, 2004, ISBN 978-1-59184-056-5, 92 (archive.org).
  39. Red Pill mode. In: maemo.org wiki. Abgerufen am 25. Januar 2010.
  40. src/repo.cc. In: hildon-application-manager. Archiviert vom Original am 15. Juli 2012; abgerufen am 25. Januar 2010 (Line 153).
  41. CNN.com – Transcripts, CNN, July 31, 2013. Abgerufen im February 15, 2018 
  42. Sandy Schaefer: 'Secret Life of Walter Mitty' Trailer: Ben Stiller Goes on a Grand Adventure. In: Screen Rant. 30. Juli 2013, abgerufen am 23. Juli 2020.
  43. Trailer: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty: watch the trailer for Ben Stiller's new film In: The Guardian, July 30, 2013. Abgerufen im February 15, 2018 
  44. Adam Gravano: A Look Back at Walter Mitty In: Highbrow Magazine, September 17, 2017. Abgerufen im February 10, 2018 
  45. Luke Buckmaster: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty movie review, Daily Review, December 23, 2013. Abgerufen im February 10, 2018 
  46. Vorlage:Cite magazine
  • 2024-11-19 14:24 (UTC) . . Randy Kryn (→‎As political or ideology metaphor: per neutrality removed the word 'hate' because the wording preceding it does not appear in the quote but is a generalization)
  • 2024-10-21 11:34 (UTC) . . Randy Kryn (moved the Freudian psychology examples to their own section (undue in lead, there are many examples and theories, this is just one. Putting it in its own section leaves room for the information and quotes to be in visible space))
  • 2024-09-29 11:39 (UTC) . . Gweiz (→‎As political metaphor: Undo biased tendency to over-weighing one sided view citation as factual evidence. The controversy between red-pilling and blue-pilling is more complicated than what claimed. The evident provided served to prove my edits of the paragraph than a conclusive verdict of red-pills vs blue-pills)
  • 2024-09-28 10:17 (UTC) . . Gweiz (→‎As political metaphor: correct some typo as the reference provide suggests both pro blue pilling Journalists and Researchers)
  • 2024-09-28 10:03 (UTC) . . Gweiz (→‎As political metaphor: Corrected pro blue-pills bias to make use of article to ridicule and cancel pro red-pillers just to propagate the idea that blue-pilling is directly superior by implying red-pilling as irrationally immoral .)
  • 2024-07-19 04:06 (UTC) . . 69.180.144.150 (→‎As political metaphor: I attempted to remove what I considered to be a biased/subjective way of describing a term and phenomenon. I respectfully suggest observing pages relating to internet terms like this closely to monitor for misleading or potentially deceptive descriptions of their meaning and use. I say this with the goal of supporting Wikipedia's goal of remaining an unbiased source of publicly available information.)
  • 2024-01-07 14:23 (UTC) . . Randy Kryn (Undid good faith revision (seems original research or essay-language, are these two items listed in the sources? thanks))
  • 2023-08-29 20:01 (UTC) . . 94.31.106.204 (I deleted the part with the false-input of someones lies on this page about something to do with "Trans", what has, in this neutral description, nothing to do as far as I know.)
  • 2023-05-07 16:40 (UTC) . . 46.188.131.17 (→‎Black pill and white pill:The main article on anarchism elaborates on the distinction between anarchism (anti-capitalist) and the capitalist "right libertarian" ideologies. The person in question is a follower of Ayn Rand's ideas, which stand in contrast to anarchist philosophy.)
  • 2023-03-01 17:01 (UTC) . . Korny O'Near (Moved set of books from "See also" into the article body, fixed statement (it was apparently only Keanu Reeves who was asked to read them, not the entire crew))
  • 2023-02-22 21:52 (UTC) . . Korny O'Near (Significant overhaul: rearranged, rewrote intro, removed some duplicate information about the plot of The Matrix, added more about red/blue/black/white pill political metaphors - hopefully enough to resolve the (now abandoned?) RfC)
  • 2022-11-15 16:09 (UTC) . . 75.102.141.233 (Undid revision 1122020056 by MrOllie (talk) You are not addressing the fact that according to a reliable source this is the first use of the "red pill" in a political context. That gives it relevance far above "some blog post". I think a reader may be curious to know how the term entered use in the political vocabulary.)
  • 2022-11-14 17:22 (UTC) . . 2610:148:1F02:5000:91AA:E123:28D4:4549 (Undid revision 1121557584 by MrOllie (talk), I undid this edit because the information it is removing seems relavent to the topic at hand. The list is documenting uses of the 'red pill' and this is provinding an example of 'red pill' in an explicitly political context which predates everything else in the article.)
  • 2022-09-13 14:57 (UTC) . . Plumbago (→‎Reality, subjectivity and religion: "in which he has been lying unconscious" -> "in which he has obliviously been lying"; he's obviously not been unconscious)
  • 2022-08-28 03:25 (UTC) . . Firefangledfeathers (→‎Red pill as transgender allegory: reworking the Lily Wachowski content to avoid implying that she endorsed the pills themselves being a trans allegory; the fact that she confirmed the transness of the film is still relevant here)
  • 2022-04-14 06:24 (UTC) . . Jack Sebastian (→‎Other uses: a lot of these are anecdotal without explicit connection or referencing to the red/blue pill discussion. If it doesn't have a reference explicitly referencing this, it cannot be here, as it's OR. I'll wait about a week before removing the OR)
  • 2022-02-13 06:21 (UTC) . . 76.17.222.150 (Correcting the misconception that the terms were first presented in The Matrix, when the terms actually appeared in the 1990 film Total Recall, which was based on a book by Philip K. Dick.)
  • 2021-11-29 10:57 (UTC) . . 202.92.246.219 (→‎Background: Changed sentence order. IMHO the current wording makes it sound like Neo knows what taking the red pill will do. The whole idea in the movie the Matrix is he does not know. Just what Morpheus says and also his (Neo's) disquiet with the world.)
  • 2021-07-07 17:11 (UTC) . . Yaq14 (I definitely think the section is not great, it lacks quality and relying on a rock musician is not the best thing. If this section has to be there, put capable people, who talk about the problems in a serious, clean way and explain both positive and negative sides, otherwise you look for negativity through the opinion of a musician. I am not a native speaker and I refuse to deal with this section.)
  • 2021-06-03 08:00 (UTC) . . 73.195.249.93 (→‎Other uses: Moved the citation of Yarvin to only cover the part of its entry that it is reliable evidence for, added an archive link to it, and added a Citation Needed template for the unjustifiedly speculative statement that followed that.)
  • 2021-01-04 16:23 (UTC) . . MatrixHyperMusic (Changed a line about the date Morpheus gives Neo during the original The Matrix movie (stating that the Matrix is set 200 years in the past) to also include information from sequel movies The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions and The Animatrix - in The Matrix Reloaded, the character 'The Architect' reveals that, purely based on the emergence of one incarnation of 'The One'/'The Anomaly', to another, there have been 6 Matrixes, each lasting 100 years. Other material implies other Matrixes.)
  • 2020-12-20 10:01 (UTC) . . Citation bot (Alter: url, template type, title. URLs might have been internationalized/anonymized. | You can use this bot yourself. Report bugs here. | Suggested by AManWithNoPlan | All pages linked from cached copy of User:AManWithNoPlan/sandbox2 | via #UCB_webform_linked 2364/3332)
  • 2020-10-13 17:59 (UTC) . . ParadauxIO (Rephrased introductory sentence to refer to the actual meanings of the term, rather than its current popularity as a meme.)
  • 2020-09-09 23:28 (UTC) . . StrangeloveFan101 ("First, they're not pills but capsules. Second, we know what red and blue look like. This graphic is utterly ridiculous." These are not good reasons to just remove the image. I reworded the caption to be better however.)
  • 2020-07-09 18:37 (UTC) . . Awilley (The Lead is supposed to summarize the article, not contain new information that isn't in the article at all. And having only that use in the Lead seems UNDUE since there are a lot of uses in popular culture. Moving it down to the relevant section in the body and adding another source with context.)
  • 2020-03-20 21:55 (UTC) . . 50.38.37.200 (Removed highlighted link to "redpiller", as it is unrelated to the main entry of this page. Left the "Other uses" reference to "red pill" intact.)
  • 2019-12-16 18:10 (UTC) . . Wordwright (→‎Reality, subjectivity and religion: In the middle of a sentence it is not proper to capitalize the "the" that begins some proper nouns, e.g., "I went to the White House" is correct, "I went to The White House" is incorrect.)
  • 2019-11-29 07:43 (UTC) . . Trippybike (→‎Chernobyl (miniseries) (2019): Besides color, there is no evidence that the red and blue tablets in Chernobyl have any relation to the concept of the red pill and blue pill. The pill metaphor may be conceptually applicable to the plot, but it is an extremely common theme. The obvious and stated meaning of the red and blue tablets is that red is hot and blue is cold and the fact that there are only red tablets left at the end of the demonstration means that the reactor melts down.)
  • 2019-10-26 12:01 (UTC) . . 206.166.194.194 (The "red" and "blue" pills were switched from what the actual quote from the movie (as well as the very next sentence in this article) says.)
  • 2019-07-26 04:10 (UTC) . . 173.20.150.213 (→‎Background: draft lottery (1969): Entry deleted bc content was irrelevant; an historical artifact with a physical resemblance to a blue pill has no connection to the original entry, neither as it pertains to "The Matrix" nor the existential themes the metaphor of the main entry refers to.)
  • 2019-06-21 20:40 (UTC) . . Skakkle (→‎The Matrix (1999): may need clarification/ more info/ context. not meant to mean that Neo within the story is trans-questioning haha. but a sort of "easter egg" for trans women & those who are questioning)
  • 2019-02-17 14:25 (UTC) . . Loodog (→‎The Matrix (1999): hehe, arguable. the matrix is the normal world, until he discovers that's he's been in wonderland. his going to wonderland is a metaphor for his mental journey)
  • 2018-08-12 20:14 (UTC) . . Deli nk (→‎Other uses: this is a vague claim that isn't supported by the cited reference which only uses the term one time as a passing mention without any explanation or any real relevance to the topic at hand)
  • 2018-06-29 14:33 (UTC) . . UKER (Put these into order and added dates to make clear which may have been inspiration to The Matrix and which were inspired by it.)
  • 2017-11-01 14:49 (UTC) . . 142.110.227.185 (Changed some language in the overview section to represent a more neutral viewpoint, as per the Wikipedia guidelines on neutral Point of view)
  • 2017-10-31 21:37 (UTC) . . 2600:1012:B06D:F577:7533:3962:1B38:42C6 (Took out the generalization about conservatives which the previous passage was saying that conservatives are, or are associated with, the alt right, men’s rights movement and gamer gate. Red Pill related more to the conservative movement because they...)
  • 2017-10-26 05:12 (UTC) . . Grayfell (Rephrasing to align with the source, such as it is. The term 'meritocratic' is used by the source with qualification and the strong implication that it's a belief, not an ideological goal)
  • 2017-10-21 06:09 (UTC) . . DarkFireTaker (Found better candidate from the "red pill movement" link in the 'red pill' disambiguation page. According to the wiki article, this encompasses MRA and "pickup artists" (and other movements also using the term).)
  • 2017-10-19 07:38 (UTC) . . DarkFireTaker (Trying to entertain the last para in intro, and making the wording more accurate/NPOV; though the problem persists. Other editors should assess and improve in compliance with NPOV policy.)
  • 2017-10-19 06:55 (UTC) . . DarkFireTaker (Reason to believe that the NPOV integrity of this article, esp. intro, is seriously flawed. Intro: (1) which culture? (2) meritocratic =/= anti-progressive (3) niche communities cited are extreme and not representative (4) subject clearly frowned upon...)
  • 2017-06-13 05:25 (UTC) . . 69.159.83.14 (→‎Other uses: Theweek/GQ sources are out of date and cannot support current claims; BI article does not establish a connection to the MRM, and the TRP interviewee explicitly distinguishes.)
  • 2017-05-23 03:22 (UTC) . . Grayfell (The Business Insider source is used later in the same paragraph. The two sources for that section, GQ and The Week, refer to the MRM. The GQ sources mentions a "red pill moment".)
  • 2017-05-23 02:43 (UTC) . . Compy book (→‎Other uses: ingesting the red pill is not described by Red Pillers as something that happens in a moment. Rather, they speak of stages of unplugging. Kind of like when you take an aspirin, there are degrees of pain relief as it gradually takes effect)
  • 2017-05-23 02:36 (UTC) . . Compy book (→‎Other uses: the Business Insider article says, "The Red Pill is a collection of ideas encompassed by what its subscribers refer to as the 'manosphere,' . . . .")
  • 2017-05-22 15:10 (UTC) . . Compy book (→‎Other uses: Red pillers believe in sex roles, not gender roles. Male roles are further divided into alpha fux / beta bux. The red pill also includes becoming aware of women's true preferences (as opposed to stated preferences).)
  • 2017-04-16 07:29 (UTC) . . 61.69.150.69 (→‎Total Recall: removing "(indicating he's in the real world already)" - this is only one person's interpretations of Quaid's actions and of the film's 'reality'. Also removing "ironically")
  • 2016-08-07 06:27 (UTC) . . Mauro Lanari (I NEVER allowed myself to restore as a revert. Every time I changed, removed, added content and sources taking into account your objections.)
  • 2016-08-07 06:00 (UTC) . . Grayfell (Quora is not a w:en:WP:RS, I don't know where you got that idea. This content misrepresents the few usable sources, and should be discussed on the talk page before being restored.)
  • 2016-08-07 02:30 (UTC) . . Grayfell (Undid revision 733333711 by Natwebb (talk) This meaning is already explained, and this specific usage would need an independent source to establish encyclopedic significance.)
  • 2016-08-07 02:26 (UTC) . . Natwebb (Undid revision 731168507 by MrOllie (talk) Reference to current usage in popular culture not otherwise included this article, which i consulted to understand the reference in the news)
  • 2015-07-28 21:17 (UTC) . . Grayfell (→‎Other uses: Only one of these sources mentions reddit, and it makes a distinction between reddit and the MRM, although they are clearly related)
  • 2015-07-17 23:02 (UTC) . . Tegrenath (per the wiki MOS:SEEALSO, annotations are for when the context of the link is not apparent. providing the author and work here does not give context to this article, it's just additional info relevant only to the linked article)
  • 2014-12-30 04:30 (UTC) . . Tegrenath (Reverted good faith edits by Gendralman: There is no OR here, just the facts of the red pill from Total Recall. There is no connection between the two films, but the article does state that The Matrix popularized the idea, not created it....)
  • 2014-04-26 03:02 (UTC) . . Tegrenath (Trinity quote is possibly relevant but it doesn't make any sense in the context of the article where it's being placed. Linked page has no references to red/blue pill?)
  • 2014-04-03 14:17 (UTC) . . Comp.arch (→‎Other uses: - Malware in quotes. It's a rootkit. Some improvment in language, but still would be better I guess, and be clearer which is which. Red Pill singular? (Upper case?) Or more than one technique?)
  • 2013-12-28 03:29 (UTC) . . Tegrenath (no source for mdma ref and essentially reiterating its use as a general drug enlightenment metaphor. Sample of the movie's dialogue used in music is not relevant to the article's scope. reference in workaholics is not notable use of the concept)
  • 2013-04-14 03:41 (UTC) . . 108.35.204.200 (→‎Other uses: Not relevant to the discussion. If you think this revision has been made in error, please clarify how this use is significant or relevant to the article when re-inserting the removed content.)
  • 2012-06-12 06:24 (UTC) . . Kyleshome (→‎Other uses: removed jay-z song, its synth. it talks about a red and green pill, with no supporting evidence that he was referring to the same some concept)
  • 2012-01-29 06:48 (UTC) . . Kfh227 (Goes with my previous edit. "real world" in this update actually relates to the perceived reality that is not real thus quoted.)
  • 2012-01-29 06:45 (UTC) . . Kfh227 (Given the other option in the summary, exacpe should not be quoted as it really means escape since Neo was litterally exacping from a fake existance.)
  • 2010-10-14 13:08 (UTC) . . Morphh (copyedit, reworded, reordered - describe the pop culture use first (both terms), then describe the history)
  • 2009-02-09 14:46 (UTC) . . Bigzteve (→‎Background: ...added less controversial wording! let's discuss this section in the talk page first please if anyone is considering reverting - thanx)
  • 2008-09-02 17:52 (UTC) . . Ayrton Prost (This is an appaling article. I couldn't understand half of what was being said. Removed a trivial point, re-implement only if you use proper grammar.)