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 😏
Electric Sheep
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2024-08-27 00:06:35
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