How We Swallowed <em>Redpilled</em> Whole
This week’s Good Word was weathered down with irony until a new meaning emerged.
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In , Morpheus, a cool bald guy wearing sunglasses and a black crocodile trench coat, offers Keanu Reeves (and, by extension, the audience) a choice. Morpheus has just shown us that the world we thought was real is merely a simulation, and that the actual real world is mired in an interminable, violent power struggle between pill,” he says, “the story ends—you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.”
