And that realisation is one I call liberating because it is also a recognition of my power. That I can be alone, crazy, small and weak but fundamentally a disruptive existence.
I have the power to be that; that power resides in me and always has and does in all of us. What an electric, overwhelming, all-encompassing feeling. I have therefore decided to embrace being crazy, which is to say I have decided to tell everybody more constantly, obsessively and consistently about the violence of the world we are living in. I have decided to, even more than before, call things by names to expose their contingency and do it in my own way.
That includes my latest drive to tell people that we are living in a genocidal culture. For example, the project to assimilate Others is a project of forced inclusion.
That rejection can, ultimately, make a population disposable or deserving of death think of the multiple ironies of Sajid Javid on the death penalty. Think about any nation-state you know, think about its history and see the pattern. The offer of liberals is the impossible assimilation: forced inclusion whilst continuously Othering multiculturalism, inclusion, diversity ; the follow up of the Right is the rejection of the possibility of such inclusion and thus, forced exclusion — think of how Obama facilitated Trump, think of every nation-state history you know.
Call me crazy, but the system is the same. And so, after a difficult month of processing badly and reeling from unresolved thoughts and structural manipulation and gaslighting like never before, I have decided to embrace being crazy if it means I get to acknowledge and name my reality, even if only for myself.
Somehow it is only now, in this state of constant grieving and overwhelming instability that I feel a possibility to exist in another way — a way that has no need to abide by rules made in a civilisation that exist only to control, trap and destroy unlike any other civilisation before it.
I was going to die, sooner or later, whether or not I had even spoken myself. My silences had not protected me. Your silences will not protect you…. What are the words you do not yet have?
What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence? We have been socialized to respect fear more than our own need for language. Our speaking out will irritate some people, get us called bitchy or hypersensitive and disrupt some dinner parties.
And then our speaking out will permit other women to speak, until laws are changed and lives are saved and the world is altered forever. Then push yourself a little further than you dare. Once you start to speak, people will yell at you. And the speaking will get easier and easier. And you will find you have fallen in love with your own vision, which you may never have realized you had. And new ones will find you and cherish you. And so, I find myself at the end of this post having summarised very little and written a great lot.
It reminds me of why I started writing: for myself. By which I mean, the first step to existing without reference? As more than a subject? But why should I be afraid to say this? Why should I be afraid to speak? Why should I be afraid to question? I am afraid anyway, so why not be afraid aloud?? I feel crazy anyway, so why not be crazy in the light??
Why not name my crazy? Why not jump down the rabbit hole rather than peering into its darkness shivering and afraid?
Perhaps being unafraid is not the point. If I am in the Matrix — the epistemological cage of deceit and illusion — and I see it, and know it and can call it out — why in the world would I opt for not speaking? For not acknowledging how mentally unhinged this reality makes me? Why would I opt to become the very guard standing between me and my power to disrupt it all? However, occasionally, just as in the original Matrix film, there is a disturbance in the matrix.
With Hurricane Katrina, we are experiencing just such a disturbance. For all who never want to see the people of our nation experience another catastrophe like Katrina, it is time to take the red pill. Tierney, Kathleen. Skip to main content. It's likely that the Blue Pill is simply Thorazine. There is nothing in the movie to support your conclusion that these options are exclusive. This still doesn't really answer the question though of what would have happened if he took both pills.
Are you saying he would have physically or mentally been prevented from making such a decision by the Matrix itself? Show 1 more comment. Most likely The machines have cleverly programmed in a null check that prevents such a thing from happening in the first place and nothing happens, Neo wakes up in the machine fields and is rescued exactly the same as in the first movie.
Very unlikely, but possible The null reference causes the entire system to crash. Every program inside stops working, and every human inside, again depending on the nature of the Matrix's programming, either dies or is woken up.
DisturbedNeo DisturbedNeo So, did you get that username by taking both the pills at the same time? Does this mean the multiple stomachs of a cow or sheep are a type of parrallel processing in order to avoid race conditions in foodstuff consumption ;- — ian. Also, the extra chambers in a ruminant's stomach are more of a multi-stage pipeline than multiple processors. You know, Fiksdal, I didn't even think about that as I typed this post XD but yeah, that's what happened.
I took both, went craaaazy, and they had to get Keanu Reeves instead. This is now canon. The Wachowski sisters can fight me for it if they disagree. I was pointing out that the premises didn't fit though. And the coding properly argument works with single processors as well.
Show 7 more comments. Graham Graham 4, 11 11 silver badges 22 22 bronze badges. The effect of each pill is opposite of each other. I would expect the effects to cancel each other out if both were taken. JasonHutchinson - They were not opposite. The red pill was a virus that disrupts the taker's "carrier signal". The blue pill is simply a sedative.
The red pill wakes you up, and the blue pill puts you back to sleep. How is that not opposite? JasonHutchinson There's the little issue of the red pill causing you to be ejected from the Matrix and becoming traceable to the Nebuchadnezzar. There's no evidence that the blue pill will reconnect you. You'll still be ejected and traceable, just unconscious.
JasonHutchinson - The red pill operates outside of the Matrix; the blue pill has effects that are entirely contained within it. While from a conceptual point of view they may be opposites, from a practical point of view they are so different from each other than they cannot really be compared. One pill alone shows that he's either not ready for the path yet, or that he's ready for the path, but still has questions and reservations, depending on the pill chosen Had he taken both pills he would have essentially been saying that he rejects the idea of his choice or freedom, and demonstrating that he has already surpassed the need for the illusion of choice, and was ready to embark the path without question.
Adam Davis Adam Davis 3, 20 20 silver badges 28 28 bronze badges. Merv, is that you? TheGreatDuck It may be interesting to guess what would have happened, but since I posit that it could not have happened, then it's irrelevant.
The other answers provide a good range of possibilities if, for instance, Morpheus said, "Screw it, you get both" and forced Neo to take both, but I don't think there's any point in pretending Neo might have chosen to take both. The same way "there are no pills", "there are no effects of the pills".
The pills are just a mechanism to show Neo's perceptions while in the Matrix. He is on his way out with or without the pills. But the asker wants to know what the pills wouldve done. Saying "neo cant take both" is irrelevant.
That ignores the premise that "neo takes the pills" and therefore doesnt answer the question "what happens to him". Show 6 more comments. Blue then Red The recovery program starts running. If the system is smart enough, it will first stop the restore operation at a safe state i. Then the person is ejected and rescued. If the system is less smart, it will break the restore operation in an unsafe state, but still eject the person.
That one memory during which the restore operation was broken gets corrupted, and the person now remembers that event with difficulty or with hallucinations. If the system is severely dumb, it will eject the person without stopping the restore process. Worst case scenario, the entire file system gets corrupted and the person is no more.
If you want to know what exactly happens, try unplugging a flash drive from a computer while copying a large file. However, the process is still running, and if it requres the presence of a brain in the output, it will raise an exception.
If not, it will keep on running. Red then Blue What happens here is much less problematic for the person concerned, but potentially much more so for the Matrix itself. If the neural interface does not require an actual connection to exist like the UDP network protocol , nothing would happen. If the neural interface has a requirement for the presence of the output device like the TCP network protocol , then the program will as said above raise an exception, and, depending on the system's architecture, either the restore program stops without consequence, or the surrounding programs go nonlinear , or the entire system will crash.
Danya02 Danya02 4 4 bronze badges. I don't think that the Blue Pill can be remotely compared to a "last known safe state" backup.
The concept is that Neo would wake up as if the whole thing were just a dream. He would remember the conversation with Morpheus, but first, just like all the other "dreams" he was having, they would just be dreams to him. Also, no matter how much he tried, he wouldn't be able to contact Morpheus again.
Morpheus wouldn't be interested after he'd made that choice. In the system itself, this would be more akin to killing and restarting a process. Ernie That could be in some form true, but I'm not sure if the canon describes that Neo would wake up as if the thing were a dream. What is said in the movie is that "the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe.
Add a comment. Sean Lindholm Sean Lindholm 1. Your interpretation must be inspired by something, can you provide us with some sources that lead you to your interpretation, and possibly provide some evidence for your answer? Morpheus isn't the literal God of dreams. He's named after said God — Valorum. Ernie Ernie 1, 9 9 silver badges 12 12 bronze badges. The question asks "What would happen if he took the unexplored, middle route?
Objectively known facts: This is just the first of many false dichotomies. Reject this first one outright, react in an unknown manner, and all hell breaks loose.
That's why there were many more "systems of control" after this one. Alex Alex 1. Is there any evidence to support this theory?
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