Is there any thought/idea/topic you wish you could 'take the blue pill' on? - Bliss through ignorance

[Cold Root Beer]

As the title posits, is there anything you wish you could 'take the blue pill' on? As in, forgetting the uncomfortable 'truth' and waking up the next day 100% believing the 'lie' and forgetting you ever didn't believe in the 'lie'. It doesn't have to be an objective truth or lie, just what you perceive to be a truth.

For example, I personally believe that there is no god and no afterlife, when you die you merely cease to exist and it's all oblivion. And I find it frightening as hell, so I wish I could take the blue pill on believing in a higher power and the existence of the afterlife.

What are some of the things that you fellow kiwis wish you could 'take the blue pill' on?

 

[Autumnal Equinox]

I'd like to hope that wokeness and far left bullshit is just a cultural phase and things will even out soon. Been telling myself that for a decade now, and as much as I hate feeling/thinking this, I believe wokeness and cultural Marxism is so ingrained in our culture now that anything else that doesn't adhere to it is seen as abnormal. Give me a blue pill so I can go back to ignorant bliss in thinking it will go away soon and we can get back to normal.

Edit: thank you for noticing me, Senpai Zed

 

[AgriDrThunder]

Professional Wrestling

 

[some Sketchy dude]

Santa Clause

Never been the same since

 

[Ita Mori]

World governments being the good guys.

 

[CrippleThreat]

Products. They're a waste of time overall to obtain and/or collect, and though I have no FOMO, I would like to interact with the latest tech/media immediately.

I would feel as if I'm just having fun and doing things I like, without feeling of being a consoomer.

 

[nanny911]

Sometimes I wish I could take the blue pill on politics. SJWs and leftists have such easy, quiet lives. Nothing to worry about, nothing to fight for, nothing to think about. I bet they get painkiller at the Ministry of Love.

But that's the nature of the red pill, what I just described is a lie.

 

[Tasty Tatty]

Celebrity pedos.

Was watching a Dan Brown (no bully) marathon and fuck it, there is Tom Hanks

 

[The Shadow]

I wish I could be less critical and turn my brain off and just enjoy things like the simple minded consoomers do sometimes. Remember what it was like to be excited about shit? I miss that.

 

[Syaoran Li]

I'd like to hope that wokeness and far left bullshit is just a cultural phase and things will even out soon. Been telling myself that for a decade now, and as much as I hate feeling/thinking this, I believe wokeness and cultural Marxism is so ingrained in our culture now that anything else that doesn't adhere to it is seen as abnormal. Give me a blue pill so I can go back to ignorant bliss in thinking it will go away soon and we can get back to normal.

Call me an optimist and give me all the rainbow stickers you want for saying this, but I do think it's still a cultural phase. For now, anyway.

Woke leftism has lasted long enough that it could become a thing permanently ingrained if it doesn't die out relatively soon, but at the same time the Religious Right was ingrained into our culture far longer than the Woke Left and that's just the one that came to power in the early 80's with Reagan and remained a heavy force in politics and culture up until the early-mid 2000's.

The Woke Left is entirely a 2010's phenomenon and mainly got as powerful as it did thanks to social media making them look bigger than they are to the corporate bigwigs and the bigwigs deciding to pander to them (and if they lose profits from that stateside, China keeps them flush with money) and 2020 seems to be the entire insanity of the 2010's coming to a head. Time will tell if this really is going to be the new normal or just a phase.

It's weird how I keep saying things can and likely will get better if Trump wins, but the weird part has more to do with how the bigwigs react to a second Trump victory as opposed to any actual things Trump will or even can even be ale to do. A lot's hinging on this election, as sad as that is.

My best guess is that a second Trump victory will cause a massive realignment despite the DNC's current efforts to ratfuck him.

If the Dems lose to Trump despite these Herculean efforts, they will know for sure that 2016 wasn't a fluke and the Seventh Party System will begin in earnest. This is more or less guaranteed by a second term of Trump. The Woke Left will likely go in one of two directions.

1. The first is complete disavowal and the corporations washing their hands of them, and this will be more likely to happen if Antifa and BLM continue to get more violent and fanatical as the year goes along. As it is, the Democrat politicians are finally feeling some of the back draft and if this continues, they'll feel the heat even more.

Increased trade sanctions or a Three Gorges Dam collapse could also make the Chinese market unavailable or severely hamper its capacity as a safety net for Silicon Valley and Hollywood.

"Get Woke, Go Broke" is still very much a thing and it's only gotten more common as the years go by, but the Chinese market combined with the massive oligopolies and monopolies in tech and the media more or less neutralizes that effect. Between the COVID-19 economic meltdowns on a global scale being so bad that even the previously invincible Disney is being clobbered hard by it and the possibility of the Chinese market being lost or at least significantly reduced due to trade sanctions and a potential Second Cold War, anything is possible with four more years of Trump.

2. The second outcome for a Trump second term would be the Woke Left getting neutered but not to the same extent as the first one.

Thanks to the nuclear options set up in May, a Trump win will likely mean Antifa and BLM will be thrown under the bus and the most far-leftwing and diehard elements of The Squad will be gerrymandered out of office by 2022 and I think Trump will use the Section 230 executive orders to go after Twitter especially.

Anyone else will likely be bought off by the DNC corporate establishment or made to bend the knee and get with the program some other way, likely by making an example out of the most openly leftward and antagonistic members of the Squad like Ilhan Omar or AOC.

In this second scenario, the Woke Left is defanged but not fully thrown under the bus and they'll likely end up being useful idiots for the neoliberals DNC in the way the Religious Right were for the neocons in the GOP establishment during the later Clinton Administration and in the Bush years.

In this scenario, they will be a major issue in the blue states and will likely by widely mocked and disliked by the wider American public but their forward momentum is more or less broken on the national level even if they remain loudmouth moral guardians.

I doubt the media won't be quite as harsh on them as they were on the Religious Right in the Bush era given how NYC and Hollywood are in the heart of the American Left's territories, but at the same time, I don't they won't pander quite as much to them than they do now.

This would be done just for the sake of financial profits especially if the next four years reduces the Chinese market's profitability right when the economy has to recover from the aftermath of the lockdowns. Pragmatism is a hell of a drug, and the oligopolies will do what they can to keep their "too big to fail" status.


3. Even if Biden wins, I do think Trump will likely use his last two months in office to make full use of those two options regarding Antifa and Section 230 while he still can as a final "Fuck You" to the Woke Left and Silicon Valley, and to also try and soften the blows of the Woke Left and the Democratic Party as much as he can simply because of his ego if nothing else.

AOC will probably also be gerrymandered out of her office by 2022 even under a Biden/Kamala presidency simply because she's viewed as an embarrassment by the DNC establishment and is very likely to have a lot of enmity with Nancy Pelosi for a wide variety of reasons.


All we can do in the Year of the Black Swan is hope and strive for the best possible outcome, prepare for the worst possible outcome, and expect the unexpected no matter what.

TLDR - I don't think the Woke Left is permanently ingrained into our culture just yet, though they are getting closer to it

 

[Exorbital Columnations]

I used to think that most people were just acting stupid for some inscrutable reason(s) that I'd eventually come to understand. It was frustrating as hell, but maybe it was better than realizing that it wasn't kayfabe?

 

[some Sketchy dude]

Celebrity pedos.

Was watching a Dan Brown (no bully) marathon and fuck it, there is Tom Hanks

Honestly, so much of the sick shit I've seen on the internet, pedophilia included. Also the optimistic and idealistic 90s view of the Internet, a way to communicate valuable knowledge instantaneously across the globe. Not even close to how it actually turned out.

Take me back to the day....

 

[Shadfan666xxx000]

i have nothing I want to take another red or blackpill on but I'm not taking any bluepills if they were an option. The truth is power and I won't cede any of it. Bluepill on women will make you a slave to pussy that you don't even get, Bluepill on products just means spending money on some jew shit you don't need, bluepill on governance is just you being fed bullshit and liking it.

 

[oldTireWater]

Marriage maybe. I'd have to re-take it every week or so though.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

LGBT/identity shit and pedophilia

 

[ZombiefiedFerret]

The only blue pills I take

 

[Cold Root Beer]

i have nothing I want to take another red or blackpill on but I'm not taking any bluepills if they were an option. The truth is power and I won't cede any of it. Bluepill on women will make you a slave to pussy that you don't even get, Bluepill on products just means spending money on some jew shit you don't need, bluepill on governance is just you being fed bullshit and liking it.

If you're strong enough to walk the path of the righteous truth and not stagger under the weight of the load you carry, power on brother. But some wouldn't mind lightening their burden.

The only blue pills I take
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The ultimate bluepill. If erections last more than 8 hours, call more women

I'd like to hope that wokeness and far left bullshit is just a cultural phase and things will even out soon. Been telling myself that for a decade now, and as much as I hate feeling/thinking this, I believe wokeness and cultural Marxism is so ingrained in our culture now that anything else that doesn't adhere to it is seen as abnormal. Give me a blue pill so I can go back to ignorant bliss in thinking it will go away soon and we can get back to normal.

Edit: thank you for noticing me, Senpai Zed

World governments being the good guys.

Sometimes I wish I could take the blue pill on politics. SJWs and leftists have such easy, quiet lives. Nothing to worry about, nothing to fight for, nothing to think about. I bet they get painkiller at the Ministry of Love.

But that's the nature of the red pill, what I just described is a lie.

I feel like politics is a big one, for me as well. It's something that inundates our lives, and especially these days is causing such a cultural rift, but the ability to change it as an individual is (mostly) drops in the ocean. Being able to just believe the headlines at face value and #votebluenomatterwho would be a tempting choice these days. But like all these scenarios, this is all theoretical because there's no way to uneat the forbidden fruit, no matter how hard you try.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

No, more red pills plz.

 

[Kenya Jones]

Lol, I was going to say that exact same thing. I've been super scared of death in the last few days in a way that I can't sleep and I just wish I could forget about it again.

 

[Samson Pumpkin Jr.]

assuming that you know everything that is true (which is not true), you don't know anything. How can one man predict the future? those stock brokers scam people and those people that you listen to for the truth are con artists. TIM POOL sucks, dumb bitch. take the tim shit "redpill" you live in a fantasy land. Don't forget that you're living in the world that Great God of Heaven created. There is only one good: knowledge. And only one evil: ignorance. “It’s Monday… time to motivate and make dreams and goals happen. Let’s go!” – Heather Stillufsen

Fuck you and your "redpills." Sorry, when did pearl harbour happen? in the seventies? no. it was 1944