紅色藥丸與藍色藥丸
紅色藥丸與藍色藥丸（英語：red pill and blue pill）是一個出自黑客帝國的迷因，象征着在将會揭示令人感到不安的真相和殘酷現實的「紅色藥丸」與保持愚昧無知并繼續平凡生活的「藍色藥丸」之間做出選擇。
起源
在《黑客帝国》中，反叛軍領袖Morpheus向主角Neo提供了紅色藥丸和藍色藥丸之間的選擇。紅色藥丸代表著不確定的未來，它將使他擺脫母體產生的虛擬現實的奴役控制，並讓他逃脫進入現實世界，但生活在「現實真相」中則更加艱鉅和困難；另一方面，藍色藥丸代表一處美麗的監獄，它將使他回到無知，在母體的模擬現實中毫無拘束地生活在舒適的夢境之中，而最終Neo選擇了紅色藥丸。[1]
作為政治隱喻
此後，紅色和藍色藥丸的概念在美國被廣泛用作政治隱喻，尤其是在網路仇恨文化中，「服用紅色藥丸」或「紅色藥丸」意味著由主流媒體所操控的「民意」中醒覺起來，從而獲得獨立於固有政治偏見的見解；而「服用藍色藥丸」或「藍色藥丸」意味著毫無保留地繼續接受這些「偏見」[2][3]。這些「偏見」可以包括對全球暖化、猶太主義、白人至上主義等議題的通常看法[3][4]。
參考資料
- ^ Matrix, Produced by Joel Silver, Directed by The Wachowskis,1999
- ^ Ganesh, Bharath. The Ungovernability of Digital Hate Culture. Journal of International Affairs. 19 December 2018, 71 (2): 30–49 [2024-10-02]. （原始内容存档于2024-09-10）.
Despite their tenuous coalitions and the fragmentation and fracturing that many observers of the “alt-right” have identified, digital hate culture does have a “common spirit” that is based on the tropes of the Red Pill and white genocide. ... Often used as a reference to a state of mind, the sense of being “red-pilled” in the context of digital hate culture refers to the idea that leftist political ideologies (which, for the purveyors of hate refers to the entire spectrum of feminists, Marxists, socialists, and liberals) have deluded the population and conspired to destroy Western civilization and culture.
- ^ 3.0 3.1 Cunha, Darlena. Red pills and dog whistles: It is more than 'just the internet'. Aljazeera. September 6, 2020 [March 17, 2023]. （原始内容存档于2024-08-20）.
'You take the blue pill, the story ends. You wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe,' Laurence Fishburne’s character Morpheus tells Neo. 'You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.' The hero takes the red pill, which is meaningful to these groups who feel the world has mistreated them. Gathering in online echo chambers, they feel like heroes for seeing the world for what it is, for being brave enough to handle it and strong enough to show others. Little do they realise that their red pill of truth often leads them down a path of delusion, the very thing they think they are rallying the rest of the world against. ... They hang out on YouTube or in internet forums and weave a web of conspiracy theory around themselves, in which they are the ultimate victims, and their scapegoats some unlikely victors in the game of life – groups typically marginalised by society: Jewish people, Black people, other people of colour, and, of course, women.
- ^ Lewis, Becca; Marwick, Alice. Taking the Red Pill: Ideological Motivations for Spreading Online Disinformation. (PDF). University of Pennsylvania Annenberg School for Communication. December 2017 [2024-10-02]. （原始内容存档 (PDF)于2024-05-24）.
As group members are radicalized – a process they refer to as “redpilling” – their ideologies and distrust of the media feed on each other and ultimately inform a broader shift in their understanding of reality and veracity. As a result, they may view highly ideological and factually incorrect information as truthful, thus complicating understandings of disinformation.
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