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Quote: (04-20-2019 08:30 PM)felix_vagabondo Wrote:
Red-pill is most importantly the decision to discard the false illusions perpetuated by the failing "leading edge" of postmodern culture (Blue-pill), which is somewhat interchangeable with political correctness.
Once the blinders are off, or for those who were never a part of Blue pill culture in the first place, sure, there is a very typical pattern of turning to misogyny (hatred of women as opposed to mere anti-feminism) and patriotic populism. But taking the Red Pill, rejecting or "waking up from" PC culture, does not in and of itself require that the seeker go down a path of anti-Semitic conspiracy theory.
More likely, the seeker will begin to accept what was already obvious: that women do not want to have sex with compliant "nice guys," that nation-states are institutions of immense value to human society, and the indispensability of military power, police, and borders, among other things, without which a nation would cease to exist. But once you have taken the Red-pill, you are in theory then free to explore on your own the world of ideas, unburdened by the delusions and distortions of Blue pill, which is an inherently authoritarian ideology, exercising thought-control, and redoubling its defense of, rather than questioning, fallacies such as the intrinsic moral superiority of victims over their perceived oppressors, or that such-and-such rape joke "isn't funny" even though it might have satisfied the basic definition of funniness, which is having induced laughter in an audience.
Unable to engage intelligently and critically with its political adversaries, Blue pill defends its facade with the dehumanization of anyone perceived to be questioning of its dogma, which is stifling to intelligent conversation. Blue pill is militant; its intellectual counter-party in what could be a civil conversation becomes a hostile enemy force, subject to any and all countermeasures, undeserving of good faith, the benefit of the doubt, or basic compassion, and there is an intense focus on "calling out" or summarily destroying perceived transgressors or opponents, often without due process, all the while purporting to advance an agenda of enlightened humanistic love and optimism.
Blue pill is an ideology that has existentially failed, and reacts by assuming a defensive position, retreating from public discourse into "safe spaces" and lashing out viciously at any and all perceived threats. Red Pill takes hold when the seeker begins questioning the SJW dogma of cheap moralism, for example, by exploring the utility of concepts like "victim mentality," and the incoherence of identity politics, in which the white liberal flatters himself with the mantle of multiculturalism and the rapture of martyrdom (the strange pleasure of penitence) while, as Zizek put it, "graciously" encouraging other identities to assert their own cultures.
Anyone who isn't caught up in that pathetic game can see right through it, and from the outside it appears blatantly ridiculous and hypocritical. When I'm talking to somebody who is really a Blue pill person, you can easily observe their lack of original thought, because they all repeat the same ideas, almost verbatim.
They've been fed a standard script for how to talk and think, and it locks them into a set of ideas that, like a prisoner tethered to a computer simulation in The Matrix, they're unable to question or explore more deeply. That is why Blue-pill people are also known in the Manosphere as Non-player Characters (NPC) as, though they are physically present in society, their inability to engage their senses with reality or think critically renders them irrelevant to the real action of exploring and hashing out or contributing to developments in politics and philosophy. History and the development of ideas has, in a sense, passed these folks by, but they remain unwilling to relent.
The result is chronic political defeat due to beliefs that are paradoxical, since they're unable to accommodate new information that originates from outside of the Blue-pill echo chamber. Thus, the Blue-pill person experiences cognitive dissonance, since they're unable to square up, for example, the fundamental supposition that private markets are inherently evil with the fact that industrial society is on track to eliminating severe poverty in the world, nor can they admit to themselves the paradox of railing against social hierarchies while at the same time participating and reinforcing them, including in the sexual domain, as does every human being and many of the animal species with which we are genetically related.
The absurdity of Blue pill is encapsulated in the observation that, while vehemently decrying the injustice of social hierarchies, SJW culture simultaneously embodies its own hierarchy, one based on the exalted passion of victimhood, the inferiority of "cisgender white males," and on displays of verbal virtue-signalling, or the flaunting of one's "wokeness" and/or another person's "problematic" qualities.
Above all, Red Pill is a recognition that much of the suffering in the world is not somehow the "fault" of "white male capitalists," but is rather an immutable feature of human life itself, far outdating the industrial era. Furthermore, it appreciates the basic premise that a revolutionary sentiment, and the demonization of authority, denigrates an existing structure that has and is, before our eyes, made life much freer, more abundant, convenient, and peaceful.
It is an appreciation of the basic conservative premise that human society is a precious, fragile and complex structure built by the toil of successive generations, upon a foundation that was established by fundamental human nature, biology, God, or what-have-you. Although activism and Progressive thought has contributed to this collective effort, it would be immature and evil to suggest that we ought to do away with much of the existing structure, including gender and property, upon which our common prosperity depends.