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The Red Pill

Here we go, probably the most volatile of the bunch, if anyone reads this, this is most likely to cause people to sign up and debate in the comments below. This one is rough, not just on the individual, but on those around them. The red pill is anger, pure and full of fire. Seen quite often on the internet, the flame wars have begun. Originally, the red pill was meant as the "wake up" pill in the Matrix, but since then has grown into entire cults of personality and anger. Donald Trump ran under this pill in his first term with "drain the swamp". This cites that the entire system is rigged, and it cannot ever be fixed. Only burned down or dominated.

With the complete rejection of society as it is, this is where the "anything goes" mentality comes in. Those that selfishly seek for the betterment of themselves over others, this is the anger. The social contract of a government and the governed has been revealed to them as false, and thus they revolt against it. And not just a peaceful release, this is not making lemonade, but forcing life to take the lemons back, even if you have to build a lemon launching gun that pierces reality to do it. It is anger, fire, vengeance, and shows up in 2 main ways. A softer, more often feminine (not female) way, and a harsher more masculine way. When I say masculine and feminine, I mean in their traditional approaches, not that if you are a woman and get angry, you cannot try homesteading. Or a man cannot protest. These people, bucking the norm will be treated differently, but are still there and are valid in their existence.

The more feminine way is the desire to call it out, to shame it out of existence, and have it retreat back into the hole from whence it came. This is the gossip, shame rally response often seen in high school girls on break. See protests, letters, mass signatures, and calls to peaceful action. While these are very public, and sometimes work, it relies on the other side, those in power and the blue pills to have some heart remaining, and see that there is change required. Those in high towers, or those that think these people are not human will not be swayed by it.

The more masculine way is to abandon it all together. This is where we see the rise of alt-right, manosphere content like Jordan Peterson, Elon Musk, and others which see the world and say "Fuck you I got mine". These are the gunslingers, the wannabe cowboys, the new frontiersmen that want to make their own farm, trade for what they need and only have enough money to send off the tax man. See those in homesteading circles, those that have abandoned the concept of a deep relationship/partnership (married), and those that have said, "we're going back to tribalism, might as well make my tribe now". In this, hedonism, tradwife mentality, wildwest dude out to make his own harem in his farm is the goal, the complete breakdown of all barriers, just him, his 6 wives, all the kids, and no one to tell him what to do and he owns several shotguns per person to drive off whomever wants to take it from him.

As you can see, this anger is easier to see in the masculine, as the mainstream sees it as the biggest threat to their continued operation. Thus there is the movements to crush the red all together, but just like war on terror, a feeling, this is a war on anger, and warring against a feeling is impossible. The red pills biggest danger is itself, as it becomes the very thing it swore to destroy, by becoming either a part of the noise of the powerful people, or by forming its own group of powerful people theoretically outside, but practically inside the system, it is doing some more damage than blue, but also damages those in here.

This anger response from both sides works, and finally feels like action, but the emotion of anger is difficult to keep up for extended periods of time, especially when you start breaking down what is needed to keep living in these scenarios long term. Once one reads some data, and digs for more, one sees the pile up of all the things that need to change to make this work. Either how much system needs to be thrown away from the feminine, how shaming a machine does not work, or how much needs to be rebuilt from the masculine. It is exhausting and no one can do it alone. This leans over to despair, and the black pill.