This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes. ~ Morpheus form The Matrix This is something I had been meaning to write about ages ago but with all the distractions, I hadn't been able to get to it.
Anyway, reading the Myth of the Cave brought The Matrix to the top of my mind. I think the movie was a good interpretation. Anyway, in the Myth of the Cave, we have a person who has become exposed to the truth after being kept in the dark for so long and then when he goes back to tell his fellows of what he has learned, he is thought to be insane, shunned, and very possibly persecuted.
This scenario really isn't all that unthinkable. How many of the great thinkers were shunned or punished for being 'ahead of their time'? People like Galileo who are credited with great discoveries but who were, in their days, criticized.
Given the chance, which would you choose to be; the enlightened but ostracized or accpeted but ignorant? Would you choose to seek the truth and risk losing acceptance or would you simply accept things as they are? Given the choice, which pill would you take? The blue or the red?
Personally, I think that I'd pick the red pill. Curiosity always gets the better of me and I believe that the knowlege and the satisfaction that comes from knowing is enough to offset any of the bad effects. like they always say, "curiosity kills the cat, but satisfaction brings it back" hehe.
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