By gaining ideas first and personal experiences last, we basically put the cart before the horse. Schopenhauer believed that we hardly apply all these ideas in the right manner. Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism, 6 to hear what other people say, to learn and to read, and so to get your head crammed full of general ideas before you have any sort of extended acquaintance with the world as it is, and as you may see it for yourself. German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer distinguished a natural way of learning, which is done solely through our own experiences, and an artificial way, which is: The red pill may pull off our blue pill glasses, but it doesn’t necessarily lead to truth. And it’s only when we become aware, and now see and experience ourselves these things that others told us, that the red pill truly kicks in.Īlthough I think that red pill knowledge can be valuable, there’s a caution before tumbling down the rabbit hole. We see the world through new eyes eyes that we have never used before. Other people’s knowledge can be used as a compass – a torch that illuminates the path to our own experienced truth. People spread this knowledge, and their own experiences and observations, to teach others what they have learned. Red pill knowledge contains tons of information about different subjects. Some stay in that rage forever, while others come to terms with reality. This realization often brings about an emotional reaction of anger and depression, which is called the red pill rage. Mostly after a great tragedy, one begins to awaken and starts to question all previously accepted realities about this world, and realizes that he or she has been living in a lie. In a blue pill world, people even get punished simply for telling a painful or politically incorrect truth. Moreover, when their reality is challenged, they will resist. The Matrix movie shows us that most people that are plugged into the Matrix aren’t ready for the truth. When the majority of people are attached to a certain belief system, it’s incredibly difficult to change their minds. Simply put: on becomes blue pilled through nurture. But on a grass-root level, people also, unconsciously, provide blue pills side-ways and even bottom-up, when the masses take illusion as reality. Those in power could consciously provide blue pills to dumb down the herd. This illusion shields people from seeing the world for what it really is. In this three-part series, I will talk about these pills, starting with the blue pill and red pill served with a bit of Schopenhauer.Ī blue pilled person lives in an illusion. Throughout the years, people began to attribute more meaning to the red and blue pill, and even expanded the philosophy with several other colored pills, like the black pill and the purple pill. By swallowing the blue pill, one remains in blissful ignorance, but by swallowing the red pill, one is exposed to the brutal truth of life. In this scene, the protagonist Neo is offered a red pill and a blue pill. I’ve already shed some light on philosophical phenomena erupted from popular culture, and I gladly take a step further by talking about the profound meaning of these different colored pills, people extensively talk about on the internet.Īlthough in popular culture, it isn’t uncommon to use pills as symbols for certain states of awareness, the best-known example is a scene from the movie The Matrix. Some of this work explores the cognitive basis of cinema, especially from the standpoint of visual attention and awareness in film viewers.Video Script of ‘The Philosophy of Pills | Red & Blue’ His research explores visual cognition, addressing relationships between knowledge and seeing in naturalistic settings ranging from object perception to scene and event perception. About the Speakerĭaniel Levin is a professor of psychology at Vanderbilt University. The Wachowski's directed the first installment of this cyberpunk, neo-noir franchise, best known for popularizing a visual effect known as "bullet time," as well as for incorporating wire fu techniques. As a rebel against the machines, Neo must return to the Matrix and confront the agents: super-powerful computer programs devoted to snuffing out Neo and the entire human rebellion. Morpheus awakens Neo to the real world, a ravaged wasteland where most of humanity have been captured by a race of machines that live off of human body heat and electrochemical energy, and that imprison their minds within an artificial reality known as the Matrix. By day, he is an average computer programmer, and by night, he operates as a hacker under the alias “Neo.” Neo has always questioned his reality, and believes that Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne), an elusive figure considered to be the most dangerous man alive, holds the answers to his questions. Anderson (Keanu Reeves) is a man living a double life.
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