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“The Matrix” co-director Lilly Wachowski went viral on social media in May after she slammed Ivanka Trump and Elon Musk for using the red pills at the center of her 1999 science-fiction movie to show support for Donald Trump and the Republican party. It was hardly the first time such a connection has been made, as Trump supporters and alt-right groups have been coopting “The Matrix” for several years now. In a new interview with The Daily Beast, “Matrix” actor Hugo Weaving says right wingers who are using “The Matrix” to express support for their political agenda have no idea what “The Matrix” truly represents.
In The Matrix, Neo is offered the red pill as a means of seeing the truth, as painful as it is. In the minutes prior to swallowing the pill, Neo says that he does not like the idea that he is not in control of his life. He wants to feel in control and the red pill is the way to achieve it.
The internet has maximized individual experiences, providing individuals the opportunity to effectively become protagonists of their own lives. By producing red/black pills or by engaging with it in digital spaces, internet users can autonomously embark on a personal journey toward truth – a journey that seems to be associated with a feeling of enjoyment (characteristic of pop culture artifacts). They can either play the hero, Neo, or the master, Morpheus – two characters who are trying to change the world after their awakening moment.
BLACK PILLED
In early August, a 22-year-old man perpetrated the worst non-terror-related mass shooting recorded in the UK since 2010 after describing himself as being “blackpilled” in a reference to a mutated version of the red pill displayed in the movie The Matrix. In digital spaces, to be blackpilled means one has discovered ‘the truth’ behind the difficulties in having sexual and/or romantic relationships with individuals from the opposite sex, especially women.
The black pill is often described as a transformation of the red pill.
the red pill has acquired different meanings but all of them with strong conspiratorial tones: democracy is a scam produced by a small group of people; equality is not a universal value (it was fabricated as such by a global elite); an orchestrated mass immigration is exterminating the white race; Jews control banks and the culture industry; feminist theories have reduced women’s interest in romantic relationships, leading to white genocide.
The truths offered by the black pill narrative seem to be more limited. They suggest that women are only attracted to a particular type of man, due to biological and/or sociological reasons and the logic of affective relationships follows similar rules as the financial market in the sense that attractive and wealthy men tend to be naturally more successful in dating women than those who are perceived to have low value in the sexual marketplace.Nevertheless, the black pill narrative can also be directly associated with the red pill one when, for example, it conveys the message that it is useless to try to find a female partner, either because feminist theories have reduced women’s interests in relationships, or because Disney and Hollywood movies have already established expectations of what male beauty should look like. In this sense, the red pill can operate as a door to truths that may motivate the internet user to take the black pill and adopt a more fatalistic worldview – and it is precisely here that one will find the mystique of the red or the black pill.
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The Matrix is among the most influential science fiction films of all time. Nearly 20 years since the third film in the series premiered, a fourth chapter, The Matrix Resurrections, was released in December to great excitement. But one of The Matrix’s most enduring cultural contributions has been to conspiracy theories. Motifs from the film have been adopted by online groups to reinforce their messages, which are often hateful and violent. Incels, or involuntary celibates, are particularly engaged with Matrix-style “philosophy”. A mass shooter in the UK, for example, was found, after his death, to have been using Matrix imagery in online discussion forums before committing his crimes. The problem is so widespread that the new Matrix film is being taken by some as a rejection of the trend. Ahead of the film’s release, two of its writers described themselves as approaching the movie with the intent of reclaiming the “red pill” trope from its hijackers.
It is perhaps ironic that in the film the red pill reveals reality for what it truly is while in conspiracy theories it allows adherents to construct their own reality – one which tends to reinforce and rationalise their own preconceptions.
The phone booths were used by both bluepills and redpills within the Matrix but, while both types of humansused the phone booths in a similar manner, the usage carried risks for redpills.
Bluepills used phone booths the same way they used other telephone devices and used them for personal calls, contacting many different bluepills like family, friends, partners, spouses, and company operating machines, oblivious of the true nature of the Matrix.
Redpills, however, used phone booths mostly as their way to exit from the Matrix. Using phone booths as exits were more dangerous for redpills and members of the resistance due to how they were for public use. The booths were also usually in an open location where bluepills, Agents, and other programs within Mega City could easily spot redpills leaving the Matrix and these booths were typically avoided when exiting as a group since Agents were quick to swoop in at the earliest signs of an anomaly.
When a redpill is in need of an exit, hovercraft operators usually use telephones in an abandoned or private area to ensure safe exit from the Matrix. Redpills and operators use phone booths only in case of an emergency or immediate exit from the Matrix.
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