Hopium vs Black Pills: A Fool's Game ~ LA PENSINE MUTINE (EN)

In the Matrix movie, the red pill symbolises the awakening, the escape from the illusion. But often overlooked is the fact that this is generally achieved through another substance, an alternative programme, another filter on reality. A pill, whatever its colour, remains an ingested element which alters our perception. It may either be a remedy for opening our eyes, or a poison to entrap us in another illusion possibly even more insidious than the previous one.

Pills and the Addiction to External Truths

The pill analogy used on social media follows a very simplistic binary pattern:

The blue pill represents those who are ‘asleep’ and take in the illusion of the system without questioning it. It is the equivalent of narcoleptics, sedatives and other sleeping tablets in the pharmaceutical industry.
The red pill is regarded as the symbol of awakening, but in reality it often turns into dogma, a belief in which people think they ‘get it’ and try to ‘convert’ others. It is akin to amphetamines, boosters and other performance-enhancing drugs.
Newest addition to the arsenal of divisive measures and latest iteration of this dynamic is the black pill of the disillusioned who rejects everything, including those who call themselves ‘awake’. That would be the poison.

In any case, there is a constant feature: we keep swallowing something that comes from the outside, unconcerned whether we should ingest anything at all.

Case Study: The Manipulation Behind the Black Pill

Listening to this video (I'm afraid I have been unable to find the original version of this video in English since the person who dubbed it in French failed to provide any credits) which purports to expose black pills, you might think it aims at clarifying the situation. But in fact, it just reverses the very process it decries. It does so in a number of ways.

One of the first catches of her discourse is its incoherent logic.

On the one hand, she says black pills “don't believe in anything”. On the other, she claims they “believe that everything is a conspiracy”. How can you believe in nothing and yet have an absolute belief in something?

This contradiction is used to immediately discredit a position that challenges the prevailing narratives.

The video blames black pills for being emotional and easily manipulated, while claiming that they undermine the morale of truth seekers. But if truth seekers may be undermined by such ideas, it would suggest that they must be emotional and reactive too.

In fact, both emotion and polarisation prevail everywhere, and her argument uses this issue to project it onto a specific group.

“They don't have the ability to distinguish good from evil”.

They don't polarise and that's a problem for the matrix which relies on polarisation. Good versus evil. Truth versus lies.

Last but not least, the “lack of critical thinking” and “intellectual laziness” argument is a conventional technique for invalidating someone and ignoring their arguments.

Not believing in dogma but observing and analysing instead is the hallmark of any individual in search of genuine intelligence. Here, however, deep questioning is equated with laziness when in fact, quite the reverse is true.

This inversion of reality is a well-known propaganda technique: blaming others for what YOU do...

Through this attack on ‘black pills’, the video actually seeks to divide and invalidate any overall criticism of the system. It promotes a vision in which you have to take sides (red or blue, but not black) and denies the possibility that individuals may not subscribe to this binary structure at all.

Why such hostility towards all-out rejection?

Because those who reject everything have no taboo areas.

‘Red pills’ fancy themselves as truth seekers, yet their quest has well-defined boundaries. There are issues they don't want to discuss, lest it might undermine their own mental structure.

If you just look at those two things, the political ideology and the religious ideology, what they create is no-go areas where you will not research, you will not pursue, because you know that if you do, there's a very good chance that your political/religious ideology will be under threat.
And we see this with the so called right in politics, which has completely hijacked the alternative media in terms of the algorithmic promotion and finance. And they won't demand answers in areas that would put their heroes, like Trump and Musk etc. ,under question.
David Icke

'Black pills’ are perceived as dangerous because they leave no room for intellectual comfort.

In the U.S., they use the word ‘hopium’, which is a contraction of hope and opium, to describe the numbing illusion of hope. And once again, hope is an expectation relying on external factors, which does not fit in with the concept of sovereignty.

‘Red pills’ need to believe that they 'got it' and that they're 'winning'. They cling to narratives which offer controlled hope, while preserving their worldview.

Red pills are but another programme of the matrix: a mental anaesthetic providing the illusion of awareness, thereby reducing our scope of vision.

Why Can't Certain Truths Be Accepted?

Everyone has a threshold beyond which their psyche freezes, lest it creates unbearable cognitive dissonance.

‘Red pills’ want to expose lies, but can't go all the way through: they need to maintain a consistent narrative structure to ensure they don't fall apart psychologically. Some realities are too extreme for them to absorb without a great deal of detachment.

Anxious not to fall into helplessness, they need an ‘identifiable enemy’ and a ‘possible solution’.

‘Black pills’ reflect back to them the fact that they are not ready to get to the bottom of it.

The Awakening Delusion: How to Switch Programmes Without Ever Changing the System

However, if this realisation entraps them into a new narrative, a new enemy, a new mission, then it's all just a change of programme within the matrix.

Yet even ‘black pills’ may become a trap as those who identify with the concept often succumb to cynicism and pervasive rejection. They may believe they can see beyond it, but in reality they are still caught in a reaction mechanism, which means they are still under the influence of what they're opposing.

The video clearly demonstrates that the ‘pills’ dynamic is no more than a play of opposites. While the ‘Blacks’ believe they have escaped the ‘Reds’ scam, they are actually caught into another delusion, that of total rejection. They're convinced they have a wider scope of vision, but in reality they're still trapped in a pattern of reaction, which only reinforces the matrix.

Blue pills blindly believe everything they are told.
Red pills think they got it and are out to convince everyone else.
Black pills reject everything and cut themselves off from any form of discernment.

At any rate, it's another way of being manipulated, because instead of trying to see for yourself, you adopt a binary stance (full belief vs. full rejection). The real awakening is not about choosing a new pill, but understanding why we still think we need to take one in the first place.

Withdrawal: How to Break That Pill Habit

If we really want to break free of the illusion, we have to realise that any ready-made truths, albeit alternative ones, are still mental constructs supported by our need for safety.

Breaking free means seeing without filters and dropping our must-categorise attitude.

Breaking free means we stop seeking external solutions and start thinking for ourselves, dismissing any proxy beliefs.

Beyond the red pill urge to convince and the black pill need to expose, there's another way: the path of the clear-eyed neutrality of the out-of-the-box observer.

Until we do stop playing this game, we'll be forever stuck in that pill habit.

The only true way out is not to be found with coloured pills but in refusing to swallow anything at all.