red pill 

"This is your last chance. After this there is no turning back. You take the blue pill: the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill: you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes." - Morpheus, The Matrix

'Red pill' has become a popular phrase among cyberculture and signifies a free-thinking attitude, and a waking up from a "normal" life of sloth and ignorance. Red pills prefer the truth, no matter how gritty and painful it may be.

"I took the red pill"

red pill by ironuckles October 29, 2004

red pill blues

Feeling sad, down, or depressed because of having knowledge about something.

The red pill represents "knowledge, freedom and the (sometimes painful) truth of reality" so you can sometimes get the blues (sadness) from it.

The opposite of ignorance is bliss.

Person 1: Hey why you so down in the dumps lately?
Person 2: Just learned some more about the world, just the red pill blues I guess.

red pill blues by Chester612 December 2, 2017

the red pill 

The original "Red Pill" is from a scene in the 1999 film The Matrix.

Morpheus offers Neo two pills. The red pill will answer the question “what is the Matrix?” (by removing him from it) and the blue pill simply for life to carry on as before. As Neo reaches for the red pill Morpheus warns Neo “Remember, all I’m offering is the truth. Nothing more.”

Why is the choice between what you believe you know and an unknown ‘real’ truth so fascinating? How could a choice possibly be made? On the one hand everyone you love and everything that you have built you life upon. One the other the promise only of truth.

The question then is not about pills, but what they stand for in these circumstances. The question is asking us whether reality, truth, is worth pursuing. The blue pill will leave us as we are, in a life consisting of habit, of things we believe we know. We are comfortable, we do not need truth to live. The blue pill symbolises commuting to work every day, or brushing your teeth.

If you want to get ahead in this company you need to take the blue pill and believe all the Vision and Values slop the management vomit up. Otherwise take the red pill and see what a shit show this is

the red pill by Smidd the skeptical December 17, 2016

Red pill 

Red pill is the concept that what is presented as truth by the corporate press is, in fact, a carefully constructed narrative designed to keep some very unpleasant people in power.

My comfortable illusions fed to me by Fox and CNN were shattered when I realized we weren't nation building in the Middle East, but serving the interests of military tech corporations and politicians at the cost of peoples lives. I'd taken the Red pill.

Red pill by boss_baby2010 January 7, 2021

the red pill 

accepting reality for what it is, as you see with your own eyes, and not accepting what other people tell you reality is

jimmy took the red pill and now precedes with every new situation extreme caution.

the red pill by mickystills December 7, 2018

take the red pill 

Originating from the movie The Matrix, this colloquial term means to face the hard reality instead of staying inside the comfort zone of fantasy. Synonym of "face it". Antonym of "take the blue pill".

After procrastinating for 5 hours on the Internet, I decided to take the red pill and start the long essay assignment.

take the red pill by cutesy pastel living doll March 18, 2014

Red Pill Rooster

Red Pill Rooster, often found yelling at the sun till everyone wakes up.

“It’s not who did it, why did it, where did it, it’s did it really happen.

You’re on level one bro!” - Red Pill Rooster

Red Pill Rooster by Texas Bear August 11, 2019