Red pill and blue pill

Red and blue capsule pills, like the ones shown in The Matrix (1999)

The red pill and blue pill are metaphorical terms representing a choice between the willingness to learn a potentially unsettling or life-changing truth by taking the "red pill" or remaining in the contented experience of ordinary reality with the "blue pill" (i.e. the reality principle or the pleasure principle[1]). The terms originate from the 1999 film The Matrix.

  1. ^ van Hees, Elias (October 28, 2010). "Pleasure and Desire in The Matrix". University of Amsterdam, Masters of Media. Archived from the original on May 7, 2017. Retrieved January 7, 2024.

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