Shantell Senior Sep 11, 2020 in Lifestyle Red pill blue pill The red pill and blue pill is a meme representing a choice between taking either a "red pill" that reveals an unpleasant truth, or taking a "blue pill" to remain in blissful ignorance. The terms are directly derived from a scene in the 1999 film The Matrix. Red pill referring to being woken up and knowing not everything that you were told by social media, the news in the world is all true. You are not in slaved by the world. Blue pill referring to that you listen to everything that you hear on the news, in the paper, and by social media and selling all those around you An essay written by Russell Blackford discusses the red and blue pills, questioning whether if a person were...