| I'm about ready for a good blue pill these days As a vegan who additionally hates eating and hates being around others when they eat, it's very hard to get along with anyone. Imagine a world where nearly everyone is a hypocrite and a murderer, and their hobby of murder is offensive to you, disgusting to you, and also seemingly the number one way for everyone but you to form social bonds of any sort. "Neo!! You have to wake up, Neo! Come live in a filthy cave and eat slop with us, Neo!" I really wonder if the Matrix gave my generation brain poisoning. Why do I greatly prefer to feel correct than to feel happy? Why does it seem impossible to accept other people and this alternate reality most of the world subscribes to? I think I would take the blue pill. The steak Cipher eats is vegan, it's made from ethically sourced human meat, the humans were not raised to be food like cattle are. The world inside the Matrix is not perfect, it's missing many things I'd like, but in that pre 9/11 dream world I could eat dairy cheese and maybe enjoy an easy life. Maybe in that dream I would be cis, even. If I take the blue pill, am I responsible for the machines killing runners? If I pay taxes, am I responsible for my countrymen voting in weird losers? The red pill is no longer a slam dunk for me. I wonder when my mind changed. |