The real red pill isn’t rejecting democracy—it’s rebuilding it.
the red pill was at least to value honesty/truth above your desire for comfort. you could infer a few more values from the context (e.g. some cloud of transhumanist ideals). more broadly the movie suggests one particular form of society as undesirable – and the case for why right-wingers are abusing the red pill is as simple as they’re pushing for the form of society from which the red pill was an exit.
but the red pill was not a push for democracy: none of the societies shown in that film were particularly democratic. much less was society after the red pill a rebuilding of the current/prior thing. so i feel like that article is rather abusing “redpill” as well.
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/11/the-red-pill-was-hijacked/
the red pill was at least to value honesty/truth above your desire for comfort. you could infer a few more values from the context (e.g. some cloud of transhumanist ideals). more broadly the movie suggests one particular form of society as undesirable – and the case for why right-wingers are abusing the red pill is as simple as they’re pushing for the form of society from which the red pill was an exit.
but the red pill was not a push for democracy: none of the societies shown in that film were particularly democratic. much less was society after the red pill a rebuilding of the current/prior thing. so i feel like that article is rather abusing “redpill” as well.
Precisely, it’s so rude that such a lovely scene was ruined by idiots tbh.