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Although the bluepill and redpill are opposites, they do not necessarily equate to opposite political/social positions. The divergence pertains to ''how'' one has reached those positions. However, being bluepilled is typically one's original belief system, i.e., the one you were brought up with. As such, bluepilled views in, let's say a liberal pocket of western Europe, are not the same as bluepilled views in the deep south of the United States. In laymen's terms, being bluepilled means being unable to produce original thoughts and a mindset that favors rehashing established ideas that have already been relayed to said person.
Although the bluepill and redpill are opposites, they do not necessarily equate to opposite political/social positions. The divergence pertains to ''how'' one has reached those positions. However, being bluepilled is typically one's original belief system, i.e., the one you were brought up with. As such, bluepilled views in, let's say a liberal pocket of western Europe, are not the same as bluepilled views in the deep south of the United States. In laymen's terms, being bluepilled means being unable to produce original thoughts and a mindset that favors rehashing established ideas that have already been relayed to said person.
==Linguistics==
===Lexicology===
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 converge somewhat and remains in flux till this day.
Merely rejecting the narrative of the bluepill, makes one "ex-bluepilled," "nonbluepilled," or [[purplepilled]]. However, actively opposing the bluepill, means you may fall into any of the other pills (see [[pill jargon]]). Someone who exhibits bluepilled thought processes is a ''bluepiller'' or sheeperson, a term derived from ''sheeple'', a term which itself has a lot in common with the bluepill.
===Etymology===
[[File:Lietenant.png|thumb|right|200px|Lieutenant is a bluepilled Chicago PD officer in the film]]
The modern iteration of the term "bluepill" comes from the 1999 film The Matrix largely reflected in its protagonist Neo. In the film, the bluepill describes the perception of plugged-in members of the Matrix, people who are unaware that they live in a computer-simulated world. The antonym to bluepilled people is those who live on the hover ship called Nebuchadnezzar, which is captained by Morpheus, a character played by Laurence Fishburne, who has 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. As such, the standard sense of 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 plotline of the film "The Matrix," including the introduction and exposition. For example, the intro and expositions to the film repeatedly show Neo has an inkling that something is not quite right with the world, even while 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".
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 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.


==Negativities==
==Negativities==
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On incel and [[androsphere]] forums, the causes behind the bluepill mentality are often discussed. In the same way that all but a few (the non-bluepilled) within The Matrix were able to see past the smokescreen of the fake world; in our actual modern society, being bluepilled can also mean being easily swayed by the exhortations of outwardly charming trendsetters or a dominant societal narrative.
On incel and [[androsphere]] forums, the causes behind the bluepill mentality are often discussed. In the same way that all but a few (the non-bluepilled) within The Matrix were able to see past the smokescreen of the fake world; in our actual modern society, being bluepilled can also mean being easily swayed by the exhortations of outwardly charming trendsetters or a dominant societal narrative.
==Linguistics==
===Etymology===
[[File:Lietenant.png|thumb|right|200px|Lieutenant is a bluepilled Chicago PD officer in the film]]
The modern iteration of the term "bluepill" comes from the 1999 film The Matrix largely reflected in its protagonist Neo. In the film, the bluepill describes the perception of plugged-in members of the Matrix, people who are unaware that they live in a computer-simulated world. The antonym to bluepilled people is those who live on the hover ship called Nebuchadnezzar, which is captained by Morpheus, a character played by Laurence Fishburne, who has 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. As such, the standard sense of 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 plotline of the film "The Matrix," including the introduction and exposition. For example, the intro and expositions to the film repeatedly show Neo has an inkling that something is not quite right with the world, even while 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".
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 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.
===Lexicology===
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 converge somewhat and remains in flux till this day.
Merely rejecting the narrative of the bluepill, makes one "ex-bluepilled," "nonbluepilled," or [[purplepilled]]. However, actively opposing the bluepill, means you may fall into any of the other pills (see [[pill jargon]]). Someone who exhibits bluepilled thought processes is a ''bluepiller'' or sheeperson, a term derived from ''sheeple'', a term which itself has a lot in common with the bluepill.


==Symbolism==
==Symbolism==
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