Electric Sheep on Nostr: It's funny how memes mutate. In The Matrix, the difference between red pill and blue ...
It's funny how memes mutate. In The Matrix, the difference between red pill and blue pill is whether or not you know you're in the Matrix. It's a 'fruit of the tree of knowledge' metaphor. It's logically impossible to both know and not know, so it's a hard binary.
But given the way the terms have been used as memes, "purple pill" totally resonates as shorthand for transcending polarisation 😏
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