#Matrix blue pill or red movie#

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He said that “the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice.” Martin Luther King evoked this notion with the work of social justice. The Purple Pill works slowly in small and sustained doses. James Clear of Atomic Habits states: “You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.” So here, the path here is neither taking the Blue Pill of complacency nor the Red Pill of urgency. The literature on habits suggests small and sustained steps are a better bet for generating results. We start with a burst of intention and commitment but quit when we don’t see results as quickly as we might hope for. This choice is also in play with New Year’s resolutions. Yet, when we zoom out, it is possible to see how much progress has been made in so many fields – from education to human rights to hunger – over time. It is tempting to go all out and often flame out. In the short frame, the prevailing reality is often distressing and the pace of change seems frustrating. The Purple Pill offers no guarantee of success but it offers a steady and sustained path that cuts between good and bad, right and wrong. Victory is elusive and the battle sparks a repeating loop of retribution. Yet, the problem with the Red Pill path is that it entails a vicious fight as in the violent Matrix. The establishment has much vested in the status quo and maintaining the Blue Pill reality. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”Ī concern that change agents have is that in playing along with the establishment you get played by the establishment. George Bernard Shaw offered this perspective, “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.

Change agents are impatient and unwilling to settle for marginal progress. We often want change to happen sooner, and there is indeed a lot of change that is desperately needed in the world. Rather than try to overturn the current reality, you work to nudge it in a positive direction. Here the choice is the middle path between red and blue. More recently I’ve started to wonder about an alternative – that of a Purple Pill. In the past, I have tended to opt for the Red Pill and the path of disruptive change. Taking the Red Pill opens your eyes to what is really going on and puts you on the path to revolution and rebelling against the state of things. Taking the Blue Pill keeps you “asleep” and trapped in the existing reality. Without delving into the complex plot, the Matrix movies center around the idea of choice.

#Matrix blue pill or red movie#

This issue surfaced for me in the latest Matrix movie which I watched over the holidays. Intention and action are the engine and wheels of personal change. Like many other people, I’m taking stock and considering choices.