thingken bout the matrix:
i think the pills are reversed. the more likely way to enslave someone in a false reality is to make them believe they are a hero overcoming the odds, the saviour of humanity, the "one", as toiling in this reality and engaging in a phony fight against the machines would end up being the thing that keeps you enslaved by them (leftists raging against the machine whilst Harvard gives them honorary degrees). the actual real "red pill" reality is the Mr Anderson software programmer one we see at the start of the film, the boring drab life he leads, this is the more likely reality because it something you don't want to be in. it's unappealing. if you wanted to enslave someone in the matrix you would give them an attractive illusion, not one they want to escape from.
i think the pills are reversed. the more likely way to enslave someone in a false reality is to make them believe they are a hero overcoming the odds, the saviour of humanity, the "one", as toiling in this reality and engaging in a phony fight against the machines would end up being the thing that keeps you enslaved by them (leftists raging against the machine whilst Harvard gives them honorary degrees). the actual real "red pill" reality is the Mr Anderson software programmer one we see at the start of the film, the boring drab life he leads, this is the more likely reality because it something you don't want to be in. it's unappealing. if you wanted to enslave someone in the matrix you would give them an attractive illusion, not one they want to escape from.
@matrix the matrix metaphor is just like a fake reality tunnel that tricks you into being engrossed in it. the film itself is a matrix that the audience are trapped inside that they escape when they leave the theatre. it was leftist protests that made me think about this idea because the fucked up thing about it is that the more you think you're fighting the system, the more you're a slave to it. it's a really perverse trap. if you want to truly fight it, you have to realise that there is no spoon.
