I am aware of the pill analogy from The Matrix of course— but I keep seeing red-pilled, black-pilled, blue-pilled, and I’m pretty sure they’re all various analogies for how groups of people deal with their own realities..
But it’s honestly just lazy; The Matrix is a sci-fi movie, it has two hours to establish a premise and then gives a binary choice for choosing between them — For the MOVIE, it works. But not in real life.
Using this system and randomly adding your own colors doesn’t make any sense outside of the context and within your own bizarre subculture of the internet. It makes so much more sense to just apply a summary of someone’s behavior/philosophy that is more accurate.
I realize that it might be a useful short-cut, but hey that’s why I consider it a possibly unpopular opinion of mine.
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I don’t even know what the options are anymore, or what they mean.
This opinion sounds pretty puce-pilled
you’re like 10 years late unc
You just haven’t been shittymetaphor-pilled yet
People do this with or without the matrix tbh, and it’s hard for me to decide whether your opinion is overall popular or unpopular. The world that the internet exposes to me suggests that this would be maybe unpopular, or split down the middle, but media also has a tendency to float the most outrageous bullshit to the surface for engagement, so how true is it really?
In my day-to-day I’d struggle to name a single person with that particular overall binary mindset, and I think I’d struggle even more to find people who would ADMIT to having that binary of an overall mindset.
I think people in general are still inherently binary though, whether they choose to believe that about themselves or not. In private, alone, or when they want to express how reasonable they are, they’ll cite the shades of gray, but when it comes to decision making, in my experience, people seem to lean heavily into BAD or GOOD with no nuance of an in-between at all.
Right or left, red or blue, etc