RED vs BLUE

Three women sat together at a table having lunch.  These friends were enjoying themselves though very different in personalities.  One was a picture of serenity whilst another very down to earth with the silent strength in her listening to the boisterous one with her arms waving all over the place relating her experience in standing up for her rights.  Then came the omnipresent telephone messages gate crashing the get-together.

That’s life isn’t it.  We can be so different but yet we can just sit around with friends to have a great afternoon together.  What we cannot get away from however is the technology that had so enveloped our lives, or rather we have let it taken a hold of our lives. 

The conversation went on to the news and twits they had read online about a recent historic event of Malaysia on 9th July 2011 which also made international news.  Technology is again involved and it is also with technology that the government of the day had been caught spinning excuses after excuses to defend their actions against the very people that they are supposed to protect but were instead treated and ambushed like animals.

The pillar of strength related an article she had written and was published on her blog and her facebook.  A well articulated article of her views of the historic event which had awaken her from her blissful slumber and had changed her outlook in life.  A comment to her blog – “Thank you for taking the red pill.”

What on earth is the red pill? 

I know of birth control pills, morning-after pills but RED PILL?  

A search on google revealed that it is a pop culture term relating red and blue pill to state of minds.

The term red pill and its opposite, blue pill, are terms that have a common symbol for the choice between the blissful ignorance of illusion (blue) and embracing the sometimes painful truth of reality (red).

 

It was such a simple comment – “Thank you for taking the red pill.”  If only our government of the day is willing to take the red pill, we would be at a much better place. 

“TAKE THE BLOODY RED PILL!”