![]() We want to have sex with a cute anime girl, but at the same time, become the cute anime girl. The red pill that Neo ends up taking is similar to what estrogen pills, used for hormone replacement therapy, looked like in the nineties. The truth may be that we naturally are - and want to be - the superimposition of opposites, or rival desires. The blue pill will allow him to continue in ignorance. In The Matrix, the main character Neo is offered the choice between a red pill and a blue pill by rebel leader Morpheus. ![]() It’s as though we never get to decide on red versus blue at all, a fate repeatedly implied in the latest Matrix sequel, The Matrix Resurrections, which also explicitly rejects the trap of purely binary logic in favor of thrilling paradox. The internet itself, as a thing that’s at once everywhere and nowhere, makes us true citizens of liminality, always on the threshold between multiple realms. This print is the perfect fit for a teenagers room, an office, or a gaming room. The same condition is explored through a collective online interest in transitory or liminal spaces - hallways, stairways, airports, lobbies, gas stations and other locations that can give off an eerily generic aura, or destabilize our understanding of the material universe. For Buddhist practitioners, that choice is equivalent to whether you use a glimpse of what you actually. Strangely, this result seems to match the outcome of taking neither pill: You remain suspended in ordinary life, though with a somehow external perspective of your predicament. In the movie The Matrix, the protagonist, after finding out that he lives in an illusory world, is offered the choice between taking a red pill and continuing to learn about reality or taking a blue pill and returning to an illusion of life.
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