It's funny how memes mutate. In The Matrix, the difference between red pill and blue pill is whether or not you know you're in the Matrix. It's a 'fruit of the tree of knowledge' metaphor. It's logically impossible to both know and not know, so it's a hard binary.

But given the way the terms have been used as memes, "purple pill" totally resonates as shorthand for transcending polarisation 😏

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Such has been the way with language since its’ inception. Words are just random sounds thrown together in a sequence. They are so arbitrary in their semantics. They only have meaning when we attribute it and that meaning can change.

Just don’t split an infinitive!!!