Would you take the blue pill or the red pill?

I used to think red pill.

But now...I feel like we have all taken the blue pill, but with the red pill reality.

Let's be for real.

Does anything feel real?

It's like we know it and there is just not much to be done about it.

Plus that character "Cypher" in The Matrix movie had a point. I swear when he mentioned the steak, I was all for the blue pill.

Gloop in reality, or steak in fantasy.

Hm.

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DarthInvader · 36-40, M

The pills represent who you already are. Neo took the red pill because he was already the type to seek the truth, even within the Matrix, he sensed that something wasn’t right, as the film itself shows. Basically, if you weren’t a red-pill type, you wouldn’t have been freed to begin with. The pill doesn’t create readiness, it only reveals it, which is why someone like Cypher could take it but still regret knowing the truth.

So it's not so much a choice as it is a revelation.

HellsBelle · F

@DarthInvader You didn't answer the question.

DarthInvader · 36-40, M

@HellsBelle Yes, I did, just read carefully. It’s not a choice. The red pill isn’t a choice but a revelation, and the blue pill isn’t really a choice either, it’s the default state of mind. Both pills are symbols. Red-pilling actually begins inside the Matrix, in the questioning and seeking before the truth is revealed.

HellsBelle · F

@DarthInvader which "symbol" would you choose??? Would you choose red or blue?

DarthInvader · 36-40, M

@HellsBelle

Do you understand what I’m trying to say when I tell you the pills represent who you are?

The blue pill isn’t a decision, it’s a default state of mind. No one chooses it. By the time someone is even offered a symbolic choice, they’ve already begun questioning reality within the Matrix. That’s why it’s not a true choice but a revelation.

No one in the films or canon is ever shown taking the blue pill, because it isn’t something one actively selects, it represents *contentment within illusion*. The red pill, on the other hand, isn’t what awakens a person, it simply confirms a path they were already walking. Those who take it had already, in essence, chosen truth long before the symbol appeared.

The red pill moment is therefore not the beginning but the culmination of a process, a point of recognition. The real decision happens earlier, in the instinct to listen to that inner voice saying something is wrong, in the willingness to follow the white rabbit rather than dismiss it as nonsense or fear a “hack.”

Basically, the blue pill is redundant. The red pill merely affirms what the individual had already become: someone unable to rest in illusion.

It’s okay if you don’t agree, my point is simply that the symbols aren’t the choice themselves, but reflections of the steps and decisions made beforehand.

HellsBelle · F

@DarthInvader I meant if you were Neo. He chose one pill or the other. Symbolic or whatever. He chose one. Which did he pick? Which would you pick?