Lewis Waller (10 May 2023). 'What Red Pill Philosophy Gets Wrong', Then & Now
https://www.youtube.com/embed/LS-hOpY-bFY
Transcript: "'Something changed inside of me. I woke up! I no longer saw the world as I used to. I quit my job. I sold my stuff. I've downsized my entire life. I've been living off my savings for a few years now. I no longer see a point in participating in the 'real' (fake) world. I know that everything I see is a lie. Everything that I've ever known is a lie. My whole world has been nothing but one giant lie from the start, and I can see that clearly now. So why bother?' – Anon message on Voat.com forum On the one hand, the ideas around being 'red-pilled' are farcical – either meant as a derisive throwaway pop culture meme, or, because of that, a symbol of the decline of public discourse. But I think any language adopted so widely can tell us something – maybe even a lot – about that public discourse. Understood properly, it might reveal insights about why it's so appealing, and how sensible people might respond. What does it mean to take the red-pill? It means that, by discovering the correct knowledge about the world, you can see the truth for what it is, become clear-eyed, authentic – it means having a revelation, realising the difficult truth that we've been indoctrinated and duped by Jewish cabals, sinister globalists, cultural Marxists, or radical feminists. The sidebar of the Red Pilled subreddit tells us that 'It's a difficult pill to swallow, understanding that everything you were taught, everything you were lead to believe is a lie. But once you learn it, internalize it, and start living your new life, it gets better' In short, it means something's deeply wrong with society. Caleb Madison writes in the Atlantic that the 'Matrix became shorthand for the uncanny feeling that our media-saturated, hyper-commercialized, machine-mediated culture had alienated us from some primal human reality.' But lots of people believe that something's wrong with society – and lots of people blame lots of different groups. So why has the idea of the red pill resonated so much with a certain type of right-winger? Why do people like Andrew Tate and Logan Paul think it's a reliable reference to call upon when they get in some kind of trouble?" (Waller, L., 2023). https://www.youtube.com/embed/LS-hOpY-bFY?start=0&end=179 Further: http://trigg.gr/tag/MetaphorPillRed#15797B1978;S8 Further: http://trigg.gr/tag/ConspiracyTheory_TartarianEmpire Further: http://trigg.gr/tag/OrgUSWesternStatesCenterWSCEricKWard#70757B801029;C3 Bibliography: Waller, L. (2023). 'RedPilled: Philosophy & the Manosphere'. Then & Now. https://www.thenandnow.co/2023/05/10/redpilled-philosophy-the-manosphere/ http://trigg.gr/tag/VlogThenNowLewisWaller
