#RED OR BLUE PILL MATRIX FREE#

(a red pill is shown in his other hand) You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes. You wake in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. Morpheus: You take the blue pill and the story ends. (In his left hand, Morpheus shows a blue pill.) (long pause, sighs) Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. Like everyone else, you were born into bondage, born inside a prison that you cannot smell, taste, or touch. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth. You can feel it when you go to work, or when go to church or when you pay your taxes. You can see it when you look out your window, or when you turn on your television. Morpheus: The Matrix is everywhere, it is all around us. That’s the endless appeal of the blue pill.The science-fictional concepts of the 'red pill' and the 'blue pill' originate from the 1999 science fiction film The Matrix, wherein the main protagonist Neo (portrayed by Keanu Reeves) is offered to take either a blue-colored pill or a red-colored pill, the former of which would allow him to remain in the simulated universe within 'The Matrix' and enjoy the comforts of life in ignorance, while the latter would lead him to escape from the fabricated reality into the physical realm that is harsher and more challenging in nature. This doesn’t make us soft or hypocritical as much as we have to acknowledge that life involves struggle that we usually try to avoid or minimize. If anything, our addiction to comfort has only deepened with the advent of new technology and services. In the past twenty years, none of that has changed. That may sound pessimistic, but we like comfort. We want to be told that we’re good and that there’s hope and that things won’t be too difficult.Ĭypher’s position is the toughest part of The Matrix because it appeals to our darker impulses, but also to who we probably are. Instead, we prefer information we find comforting. They choose information that conforms with their preconceived notions because harder truths are difficult.

The Matrix is predicated on the idea that people are willing to make hard choices if it means they’ll get to the truth, but the last twenty years, particularly with the advent of social media and the Internet show that people like to choose their own reality. We want a pleasant illusion, or we want to look the other way. We’re the people that have to do the grunt work and as time goes on, we don’t really want THE TRUTH as much as we claim.

#RED OR BLUE PILL MATRIX FREE#

Yeah, it would be awesome to be free if we were The One, and it turned out we also had special abilities and were the hero the world had been waiting for. But really, freedom only means something for Neo. They want us to believe that we would do the brave thing and live in a miserable reality if that meant being free. To their credit, the Wachowskis are trying to appeal to our better angels. If I have to choose between that and the Matrix, I choose the Matrix.” Later when he starts killing his crewmates and Trinity tries to tell him that Morpheus freed them, Cypher fires back, “Free? You call this free.

After nine years, you know what I realize? Ignorance is bliss.”Īnd he has a point. I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. He tells Smith, “You know I know this steak doesn’t exist. When Cypher’s treachery is revealed to the audience, we see him having dinner with Agent Smith ( Hugo Weaving) inside The Matrix.

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