Hacker News Reader

Funny, I think is it mostly seen as the opposite.

That the media and government create a propaganda narative, a fake reality we live in.

The red pill has become a symbol of breaking out of all the progressives lies.

Claiming the concept of a "red pill" as something exclusive to the red tribe is correctly perceiving the blue tribe memetic groupthink, while mistakenly thinking that becoming aware of one general memetic prison means you must have found your way out and into freedom. That media/government propaganda narrative most certainly applies to the red tribe as well. If anything, the red tribe groupthink is much older and pointing out the holes in it is the long established function of the blue tribe, hence why the ideas of The Matrix don't get as much concentrated attention from them.

If you live your whole life in the blue tribe, if your state is a blue tribe breaking out of it and understanding the world from the other side is liberation.

Then yes after that we need a bit of both, both sides have their pathologies.

We live in a narative whether we like it or not, but once we understand that we can more easily take control of it.

Except that's literally what Wachowskis said -- the rest is right wing fan fiction.

Written by people who would likely disavow the movie entirely if they did 5 minutes of research on the Wachowskis.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com