We are all living in a world fraught with danger and doubt from many things beyond our control in the physical world such as infectious diseases, accidents of all kind, hereditary traits that cause ill health and potential death in addition to plain old bad luck that can take away what we worked hard for all of our lives in an instant. There is an even more present danger in what our lives will be like from the messaging given to us during our lifetime by our own family, siblings, friends, co-workers, and societal leaders of all stripes. Today, we have a media in cahoots with those leaders, reporting only what they want you to see and hear so that they can maintain their power and influence over you and your beliefs. We have all been indoctrinated since birth and we carry those false ideas of the families we grew up in and the society in which we happen to inhabit. We cope with our past bad information from these sources by deciding who it is we will believe and what beliefs give us the most comfort. If we take the imaginary blue pill it allows us to maintain the comfort of our illusions that all is well and we will be taken care of by our friends, our loved ones, by our leaders or maybe even by a God we were taught who loves us and watches over us. In many cases, it is those same entities whose main interest is gaining more control over your thoughts and actions so that they can enjoy the control and power it brings them when you accept their opinions and beliefs as factual, even if they are detrimental. Unfortunately, those whom we trust do not always have our best interests in mind, but their own.
This is certainly not a new revelation. This has been going on since man wrote the first symbols on their dimly lit cave walls. Staying in the cave is where those “in authority” over you want you to stay, rounded up like sheep to be controlled and used, submitting like docile children to their edicts and pronouncements. This control could be from any one of the aforementioned groups who convince you of who and what you are and what they think you should or should not do. If and when you start questioning their pronouncements, the ones who control you are angered because they need your acquiescence and agreement with their beliefs to maintain the upper hand. Questioning the statements of others, particularly those close to you is difficult and demanding and can bring forth recriminations, anger, shunning, and even worse. If you take that imaginary blue pill it lets you stay there in the comfort of beliefs you adopted from others about yourself and the world around you. You know that the imaginary red pill behind their back will set you free but comes with a catch. The truth is more difficult to face than the lies we force ourselves to believe. Why leave this blue pill paradise of ignorance that Adam and Eve enjoyed and rock the boat? The devious devil must want us to pick the red one, we tell ourselves.
We take the blue pill of comfort and remain in a fantasy world of beliefs given to us by others intended to exert power, control, and influence over what we believe. For those who may wonder why I use the name “Paradoxical”, it is because life is filled with paradox. There is of course no red pill or blue pill. There is only what we believe that makes us weak or strong. Would Adam and Eve had been better off not knowing? Was it the devil who was the one giving them their freedom? Every single one of us walks around with beliefs dancing inside our heads that have been given to us by others as the truth. In the story of Adam and Eve, the devil was portrayed as the deceiver for convincing Adam and Eve to eat from the tree of knowledge. Ever since that story was sold, we have been convinced that the devil was the bad guy when he was the one who was telling them the truth. A lifetime of being controlled is yours for the choosing. A paradise called ignorace that Adam and Eve could have kept or one of struggles, being alone and lonely and harsh discoveries iof what is really the truth. The blue pill or the red one? The choice is yours.
Jefferson Airplane-White Rabbit Lyrics
One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small,
And the ones that mother gives you
Don’t do anything at all.
Go ask Alice
When she’s ten feet tall.
And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you’re going to fall,
Tell ’em a hookah smoking caterpillar
Has given you the call.
Call Alice
When she was just small.
When the men on the chessboard
Get up and tell you where to go
And you’ve just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving slow.
Go ask Alice
I think she’ll know.
When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead,
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen’s “off with her head!”
Remember what the dormouse said:
“Feed your head. Feed your head. Feed your head”
