Getting red-pilled is too painful for many

 Update on 4/19/23:

Is that why they are called snowflakes?

A snowflake can't take the heat.  The difference these days is that they'll throw you out of the kitchen.

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Original post on Jun 29, 2022

The Matrix analogy has made it to the popular culture. Or, if not popular culture, then to the alternate culture. The alternate culture is the analogy to the characters in the movie who are fighting the Matrix.

It's not machines that are being fought. But there's no soul to this organization, and so it might as well be a machine.

In the red pill scene, the character called Morpheus asks the character being red-pilled, which is Neo, if he believe in fate. Neo replies that he doesn't. He wants to have some control over his life. The analogy is so uncanny that it really does fit the world in which we now live. Yet these people who created it probably do not think of themselves as part of the soul-less machine that has taken over people's lives. In psychological terms, it appears to be projection. The "woke" types think that they are living in the real world. The world as it is, is the soul-less machine-like organization that is oppressing them.

Who is right, then? It is an easy call if you don't believe that men can have babies. The people who push such notions are pushing the fantasy world of the Matrix. But if you believe any of this fantasy, or if you are tempted to find any of it compelling, then maybe it isn't an easy call.

In the movie, the people are not free. They are being oppressed by the machine, who keeps them in bondage so that they can be exploited. How then is it really any different than what is being done today? Aren't the people being lied to, and given a false reality to believe? Why should it be so hard to escape this "Matrix"? The people are not being physically restrained---yet...

In the movie, the people are being held in physical bondage. That doesn't exist yet, but those who are pushing these fantasies are seeking physical control over the people. That's what gun control is all about. Are the fantasies that seductive that it is too hard to escape from them?

I don't see the attraction for these fantasies. But that's me. I prefer to live in the real world. Perhaps those who are attracted to these fantasies prefer the fantasies. To "red-pill" them is next to impossible. They'll take the blue pill every time.