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==Etymology== | ==Etymology== | ||
The | The modern iteration of the term "bluepill" comes from the 1999 film The Matrix. In the film, the bluepill describes plugged in members of the Matrix, people who are unaware that they live in a computer simulated world. The antonym to bluepilled people are those who live on the hovership called Nebuchadnezzar, which is captained by Morpheus, a character played by Laurence Fishburne, who have instead taken the redpill. These people are no longer plugged in, and as such can see what the real world looks like rather than the "world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth ... that you are a slave Neo. Like everyone else you were born into bondage. Into a prison that you cannot taste or see or touch. A prison for your mind." (-Morpheus quote) | ||
In the year 2199, those on the Nebuchadnezzar or other freed people in Zion (i.e. the redpilled resistance) constitute a small minority of the total human population, being bluepilled is typically associated with majority or popular, yet myopic viewpoints. As such, definitions of "bluepill" that stick to its etymological origins tend to extrapolate from the entirety of the plot line of the film "The Matrix", including the introduction and exposition. For example, the intro and expositions to the film repeatedly shows Neo has an inkling that something is not quite right with the world, even whilst plugged in, but he doesn't know exactly what that intuition entails. This is in stark contrast with the rest of the plugged-in populace who go about their daily lives as if nothing is happening. Neo's inquisitiveness about the strangeness of the world stands in stark contrast to other people who view the simulated reality as real, an archetype that can be summarized by the following quote from Trinity to Neo: "I know what you've been doing... why you hardly sleep, why you live alone, and why night after night, you sit by your computer. You're looking for him. I know because I was once looking for the same thing. And when he found me, he told me I wasn't really looking for him. I was looking for an answer. It's the question that drives us, Neo. It's the question that brought you here". | In the year 2199, those on the Nebuchadnezzar or other freed people in Zion (i.e. the redpilled resistance) constitute a small minority of the total human population, being bluepilled is typically associated with majority or popular, yet myopic viewpoints. As such, definitions of "bluepill" that stick to its etymological origins tend to extrapolate from the entirety of the plot line of the film "The Matrix", including the introduction and exposition. For example, the intro and expositions to the film repeatedly shows Neo has an inkling that something is not quite right with the world, even whilst plugged in, but he doesn't know exactly what that intuition entails. This is in stark contrast with the rest of the plugged-in populace who go about their daily lives as if nothing is happening. Neo's inquisitiveness about the strangeness of the world stands in stark contrast to other people who view the simulated reality as real, an archetype that can be summarized by the following quote from Trinity to Neo: "I know what you've been doing... why you hardly sleep, why you live alone, and why night after night, you sit by your computer. You're looking for him. I know because I was once looking for the same thing. And when he found me, he told me I wasn't really looking for him. I was looking for an answer. It's the question that drives us, Neo. It's the question that brought you here". | ||