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A line by Cypher in the same film indicates that for some people, non-truths are more palatable than truths, i.e. through the line he communicates to Neo: "I know what you're thinking, 'cause right now I'm thinking the same thing. Actually, I've been thinking it ever since I got here: Why, oh why, didn't I take the Blue pill?" When coupled with his sentence a few scenes later wherein he says "ignorance is bliss", it is clear that some people are not brave enough to face the harsh realities of this world. Similar to Cypher, they would rather that complicated or difficult obstacles be wished away so they could continue to live in their fairy-tales. The plot of the film later reveals that Cypher defects from the resistance in the hope of being plugged into the fake virtual world again. | A line by Cypher in the same film indicates that for some people, non-truths are more palatable than truths, i.e. through the line he communicates to Neo: "I know what you're thinking, 'cause right now I'm thinking the same thing. Actually, I've been thinking it ever since I got here: Why, oh why, didn't I take the Blue pill?" When coupled with his sentence a few scenes later wherein he says "ignorance is bliss", it is clear that some people are not brave enough to face the harsh realities of this world. Similar to Cypher, they would rather that complicated or difficult obstacles be wished away so they could continue to live in their fairy-tales. The plot of the film later reveals that Cypher defects from the resistance in the hope of being plugged into the fake virtual world again. | ||
Over the course of the 2000s, frequenters of the incelosphere began seeing two discordant views begin to develop that seemed somewhat analogous to the contrasting view of perspectives between redpillers and bluepillers in The Matrix. Thereby, the term bluepill began being used to signify a worldview that aligns with the just-world hypothesis, feminism, platitudes, the mainstream media and cliche'd viewpoints. On the other hand, the redpill began to signify having abandoned or being "woke" from these beliefs, which in the androsphere had supplementary beliefs such as women being privileged in modern society began gaining a foothold. | Over the course of the 2000s, frequenters of the incelosphere began seeing two discordant views begin to develop that seemed somewhat analogous to the contrasting view of perspectives between redpillers and bluepillers in The Matrix. Thereby, the term bluepill began being used to signify a worldview that aligns with the just-world hypothesis, feminism, platitudes, the mainstream media and cliche'd viewpoints. On the other hand, for many omega males, the redpill began to signify having abandoned or being "woke" from these beliefs, which in the androsphere had supplementary beliefs such as women being privileged in modern society began gaining a foothold. | ||
Upon the shutting down of some formerly purplepilled incel forums and websites in the 2000s and 2010s (see [[incelosphere timeline]]) and the influx of men from various male-dominated forums, the definitions of the incel and androsphere blue/red pill began to somewhat converge and remains in flux till this day. | Upon the shutting down of some formerly purplepilled incel forums and websites in the 2000s and 2010s (see [[incelosphere timeline]]) and the influx of men from various male-dominated forums, the definitions of the incel and androsphere blue/red pill began to somewhat converge and remains in flux till this day. | ||