Taking the red pill
I was sick last week, a rare and very frustrating situation that forced me to stay home from work for two days. Even rarer, I popped a pill to try to deal with massively congested sinuses so I could actually go out to a restaurant for nourishing Vietnamese soup.
I couldn't help noticing that the pill I popped was blue. Hmm, I thought, if this was the Matrix, I'd have just opted to stick with my narrow, blinkered existence. Am I trying to keep myself drugged so I don't have to deal with The Way Things Really Are? (Yes, I actually ask myself questions like that after taking one decongestant.)
When I got to my local beef soup spot (Mimi's on Gerrard, if you're interested) the broth was thin, but the plot got thicker. I picked up a copy of NOW magazine, and just for fun, turned to my horoscope. I say "just for fun," but actually, horoscopes are not fun for me. That's because I have what I call a Velcro Soul: stuff sticks to me. Even a fortune cookie can become a self-fulfilling prophecy, and besides, I'm always seeing signs in everything. Meaningful signs too.
So it shouldn't have surprised me that my horscope would turn out to be dead-on. But I mean REALLY dead on. Listen: this is a direct quote from Rob Brezny's Free Will Astrology column.
In the first Matrix movie, the central character, Thomas "Neo" Anderson, gradually begins to suspect that his entire understanding of reality is a delusion. At a key moment, a mysterious ally named Morpheus offers him a choice between two pills. If Neo takes the red pill, Morpheus tells him, he will be able to see the truth he has been blind to. If he swallows the blue pill, he will sink comfortably back into the lie he has been living. I see the coming weeks as a comparable turning point for you, Taurus. Which will it be, the red pill or the blue pill?
See? This is what it's like to be me, and this is why I'm so damned squirrelly half the time. I'd like to know why I'm so succeptible to this kind of thing, but the answer to that question can wait.
Right now, I just want to know two things: does the fact that I had already taken the blue pill disqualify me from learning the truth (I'm guessing it doesn't, since the horoscope refers to "the coming weeks"); and if not.... how do I go about taking the red pill?
I couldn't help noticing that the pill I popped was blue. Hmm, I thought, if this was the Matrix, I'd have just opted to stick with my narrow, blinkered existence. Am I trying to keep myself drugged so I don't have to deal with The Way Things Really Are? (Yes, I actually ask myself questions like that after taking one decongestant.)
When I got to my local beef soup spot (Mimi's on Gerrard, if you're interested) the broth was thin, but the plot got thicker. I picked up a copy of NOW magazine, and just for fun, turned to my horoscope. I say "just for fun," but actually, horoscopes are not fun for me. That's because I have what I call a Velcro Soul: stuff sticks to me. Even a fortune cookie can become a self-fulfilling prophecy, and besides, I'm always seeing signs in everything. Meaningful signs too.
So it shouldn't have surprised me that my horscope would turn out to be dead-on. But I mean REALLY dead on. Listen: this is a direct quote from Rob Brezny's Free Will Astrology column.
In the first Matrix movie, the central character, Thomas "Neo" Anderson, gradually begins to suspect that his entire understanding of reality is a delusion. At a key moment, a mysterious ally named Morpheus offers him a choice between two pills. If Neo takes the red pill, Morpheus tells him, he will be able to see the truth he has been blind to. If he swallows the blue pill, he will sink comfortably back into the lie he has been living. I see the coming weeks as a comparable turning point for you, Taurus. Which will it be, the red pill or the blue pill?
See? This is what it's like to be me, and this is why I'm so damned squirrelly half the time. I'd like to know why I'm so succeptible to this kind of thing, but the answer to that question can wait.
Right now, I just want to know two things: does the fact that I had already taken the blue pill disqualify me from learning the truth (I'm guessing it doesn't, since the horoscope refers to "the coming weeks"); and if not.... how do I go about taking the red pill?
posted by David Newland at 24.3.04
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