This is Part 0 of the Origins of Blue Pill mega article.
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Orientation
The concept of Blue Pill started from gender dynamics. It was a metaphor to explain the fiction that society provided compared to the reality that Players found.
A reality so raw, unforgiving, and unignorable that it gave the perception of a grand conspiracy. A matrix encompassing our lives. Metaphorically speaking, the concept is the exact truth.
This matrix metaphor extends to non-gender topics. People found the same dynamics playing out in other areas of life, for example, political systems like communism, or social norms like the myth of infinite progress. Once under scrutiny, the mechanics are the same. Deep structural lies that threaten our entire perception of reality. This is the Blue Pill in its generalized form.
In its generalized form, Blue Pill is Social Programming. A totalitarian philosophical system that is imposed on humans from the moment they are born, with the aim of action inhibition. Social Programming creates a judge in the minds of humans. A judge who enforces social will in the absence of social instruments.
Aside: “Total” in philosophical sense means all-encompassing.
Sounds far-fetched? Here is the definition of Social Programming as used in common language:
Social programming (uncountable)
1 The gradual shaping of our thinking and beliefs by the society around us—whether through institutions, authority, or simply absorbing norms over time.
2 The set of societal ideas and assumptions that become embedded in our minds and influence how we perceive the world.
Social Programming is the ultimate control weapon. It weaponizes one’s own mind against the person itself. Literally, it is about society claiming ownership of a part of your brain.
Scope
What we will show is that this is not a planned or constructed evil. It arises naturally from the way humans evolved. Actually, for the largest part of our evolutionary history, it worked for the benefit of the individual by promoting group cohesion and group survival.
However, as in so many other ways, Modernity has distorted our evolutionary weapons. What used to be a group cohesion tool has turned into an inhibition tool, a political radicalization tool, and a tool that isolates the individual. This is the effect of social media, the press, and the impersonal institutions that govern our lives.
This series is not doom and gloom. We will show how Blue Pill is a natural human condition, but we will show how the illusion breaks. As a society, we have done it before. We have faced the illusion head-on and won. We aim to learn from those victories.
Reader orientation
What follows is a demanding deep dive into philosophy, ancient history, politics, and cultural analysis. To assist the reader, this page contains the arguments of the series summarized into bullet points.
Acknowledgements
The series draw heavy inspiration from Bronze Age Mindset, Sex and Power in History, and Selective Breeding and the Birth of Philosophy by Bronze Age Pervert, Aumory de Riencourt, and Costin Alamariu. Each of these authors addressed key pieces of the puzzle with remarkable insight. In this work, we synthesize their contributions to reveal a broader perspective.
This is Part 0 of the Origins of Blue Pill mega article.
Part one
Part two
Part three
Orientation
