Of course, Neo takes the red pill, which totally transforms his world forever. As is well known, in The Matrix, the protagonist, Neo, or, importantly “The One”, is given an option: take the blue pill and remain in the realm of illusions take the red pill, and break free from your illusions to confront the brutal harsh reality that sustains the illusion. The Red Pill philosophy is based on a metaphor from The Matrix. Thus, in this video we apply dialectical thinking to the contemporary horizon of liberal progressivism and traditional conservatism to see the nature of its current oppositional determination, and how we can start to think towards a different horizon. When we think dialectically we are constantly thinking in terms of the movement of figures of consciousness, and specifically the movement of figures of consciousness that tend towards a structural becoming organized within the domain fixed oppositions. The point of constructing this video is to reintroduce the nuances and complexities that come with dialectical thinking, as opposed to naively or dogmatically holding to a particular viewpoint. In this blog we are going to be analyzing the basic claims of the red pill philosophy, both in terms of what it negates in contemporary progressive liberalism, and what it affirms as a replacement ideology capable holding the contemporary political discourse. Over the past few years the progressive ideology, the ideology that tends to structure the leftist or liberal world, has been fundamentally challenged by a new form of traditional conservatism that is often referred to online as “red pill” philosophy. YouTube video here: Challenge of Red Pill Philosophy for Progressives
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