the red pill

Red pill reminders in the news… October 8, 2009

This is so sad.

There are only a few celebrities I have looked up to from afar – though I’ll never meet them.  Mel Gibson was one.

Bravehart was one of the best movies I have ever seen – I would have married him if I were Lauren – even if people WERE stinky for lack of soap back then.  I thought he had such character.

But then things happened, as they always do when people turned celebrities start to believe their own hype (in no particular order):

1. He has an affair with a supermodel and leaves his wife of many years. 

Ok, a red pill dissuasion to my Mom’s blue pill fantasy #3 on my list:

You find a GOOD MAN who will treat you well and support you.  Then you’ll have a good life with children and a husband who will always love you!

OK that one is understandable.  While certainly a red pill awakening to the “happily ever after” scenario, it’s not uncommon for couples to split up after many years of marriage – especially when they grow apart and have been for many years. Plus we never know both sides of the story.  Sad but very common and happens to LOTS of decent people. Myself included.

But these next ones:

2. Making slanderous remarks on the ethnicity of the jewish people, gets pulled over drunk driving THEN gets it expunged, kinda does away with Moms #5 on the list of “universal truths”.

You will be rewarded for GOOD deeds. People who do BAD will be punished. 

I’m not really upset with Mel.  Hey we all go off the deep end. But the red pill here that’s hard to swallow is that “famous” and “rich” usually coincide with “preferential treatment”, and we are shown this by the very legal system that rules our society. The rich get “juice cards” , the poor – which is everyone is relation to the rich and famous – get ruined, often for life.  And a lot of the times, the average man on the street who has screwed up is just a good person going through a bad time.

So make sure you send our society a thank you card for this red pill.  Don’t blame Mel – idiot though he was – our society created this demi-god (and we’re part of it)