![]() So what’s my drug of choice? I surely participate in the collective red-pill illusion, that we see things as they really are. You can likewise be “ green-pilled” (appalled by the ravages of climate change), “ yellow-pilled” (have your belief system shattered), or, inevitably, “pillpilled,” spotted on Twitter last year: My love of Xanax and Ox圜ontin has lead me to become Pillpilled.” I refer you to the recent article in Bitcoin Magazine, “How To More Effectively Orange-Pill Your Friends and Family,” written by a “diehard bitcoin maximalist” evangelizer. Or that you acknowledge the “truth” that bitcoin - recently likened in these pages to a Ponzi scheme - is the Currency of Destiny. ![]() First, that you follow the Orange One, i.e., Donald Trump. Originally introduced in the 1999 blockbuster film The Matrix, the term red pill has gained. Have you been orange-pilled? That can mean two things. The word red pill and its counterpart, blue pill are popular social media terms that have become iconic symbols for the choice between the blissful ignorance of illusion (blue pill) and embracing the often painful truth of reality (red pill). Neo’s choice between the red and the blue pill at the beginning of The Matrix is one of the most remembered scenes in pop culture history, and the story of not only Neo but also of the war between humans and machines as a whole would have been a lot different had Neo chose the blue pill. The red pill will wake you up to all the horrors of reality, and the blue pill will let. Hand stamped on a new stainless steel spoon. ![]() Matrix Resurrection inspired, when Keanu or Neo met the Oracle with Morpheus. ![]() “White-pilled” means the opposite, the Urban Dictionary explains: “The moment or series of events by which a person abandons despair and surrenders to the inevitability of hope not out of sheer optimism, but from facing difficulty and nihilism head-on through the use of reason and inquiry.” In the 1999 movie The Matrix, the protagonist is presented with a choice: Take a red pill or a blue pill. Blue and red pills in a glass vial in homage to the film Matrix am the White Rabbit gift for fan or for Cabinet of Curiosities. ![]()
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