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Red pill and blue pill
Dilemma between painful truth and blissful ignorance / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Red pill" redirects here. For other uses, see Red pill (disambiguation).
The red pill and blue pill are metaphorical terms representing a choice between learning an unsettling or life-changing truth by taking the "red pill" or remaining in the contented experience of ordinary reality with the "blue pill". In Freudian psychology, the corresponding principles are the reality principle and the pleasure principle.[1] The pills were used as props in the 1999 film The Matrix.
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