Which pill would you choose

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. However, ignoring the truth, that is, taking the blue pill of doing nothing or choosing products that do not protect our vision, means sleeping through the warnings of our own eyes.

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Belief and Doubt are opposing psychological states. They can not exist with regard to the same idea at the same time. Philosophy rests on a Process of Inquiry using the dialectical method for thought.

For the method and the frame of mind of Philosophy whatever position is arrived at should be subject to continuing process of inquiry and examination. You can not doubt your doubts. You can subject doubt to inquiry in order to resolve it one way or another and arrive at a belief. You can doubt or question a belief and subject it to critical examination.

You can not believe a doubt. You simply doubt. So, Philosophy is about thinking about beliefs and settling on a belief using reasoning and evidence wherever possible. It is also about continuing the process of review of beliefs or positions taken using the continuing dialectical method in the midst of a community of inquirers that serve to reinforce the critical element in careful thinking..

When the LORD God made the earth and the heavens- 5 and no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth [ b ] and no plant of the field had yet sprung up, for the LORD God had not sent rain on the earth [ c ] and there was no man to work the ground, 6 but streams [ d ] came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground- 7 the LORD God formed the man [ e ] from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. And the fourth river is the Euphrates. I will make a helper suitable for him. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. But for Adam [ h ] no suitable helper was found. He said to the woman, "Did God really say, 'You must not eat from any tree in the garden'? She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.

Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from? You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever. Introduction to Philosophy by Philip A.