[ SECRET POST #4379 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4379 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

They're not misappropriating a iconic image. The red pill wakes people up and the blue one keeps people asleep. You take the red pill, you become woke and you get to see the world as it really is, how terrible it is, how everyone's a mindless pawn being controlled by automation and now you have to fight against the evil automated machine empire that's controlling everything and keeping everyone else asleep while you, the person who took the red pill and a handful of others know the truth.

I don't think they're misinterpreting the image itself. They understand the red-pill blue-pill thing correctly, but the problem is that they're looking at it in isolation from the rest of the film. And the actual movie doesn't agree with their ideology at all.

The basic concept of becoming woke, and seeing the world as it really is, and having to fight for the truth that only you can understand - that really isn't unique to The Matrix, or to the Red Pill folks. The red-pill blue-pill thing is a very memorable image, one that's interesting and modern and contemporary. But the concept underneath it is common to a bunch of different things. It's the general experience of being converted to any new worldview - whether that's a religion, or an ideology, or a philosophy, or whatever. Some of the details change but the basic concept is pretty widespread.

And honestly I don't really see any other, deeper connection between the films and the ideology. But IDK.

[(Anonymous)]

DA: I agree, although I think one of the Wachowski weak spots is that their religious and political metaphors are rarely clearly developed. I mean, I got their point that The Matrix is about dharma and cyclic history, especially after they did it all over again in Cloud Atlas. But I can also see how a lot of people just don't get that and project their own biases onto the metaphor.