Ellsworth

Follow the breadcrumbs -- follow the social / cultural programing:

https://movies.stackexchange.com/que...-bomb-disposal

"What was the first movie to introduce "blue wire or red wire" bomb disposal?
I have seen Juggernaut (1974) recently. There is a scene in the end of the movie when the bomb disposal expert, Fallon has to choose one of the two wires (red or blue) to cut in order to disarm the bomb. Finally, Fallon makes a choice by intuition."

Additional movies that feature a red / blue decision: Die Hard, Armageddon, Lethal Weapon 3, and there are others. Typically on the most exciting scene, the most anxiety inducing, the moment of greatest danger / threat -- creating hard emotional anchors within viewers.

Red / Blue = a long standing movie trope, hitting every generation expect the Silent generation and the earliest Boomers -- thanks to black and white programing and often a disinterest in screens -- people from a different era.

Color TV started around 1951, first for the wealthy and eventually for mass consumption.
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https://www.livescience.com/why-veins-blue-arteries-red
"If blood is red, why do veins look bluish?"

Blood's red and blue nature makes red pill / blue pill a visceral hack attack connected to veins.

Blood's red and blue nature is often forgotten knowledge, lurking around subconsciously in a brain -- leaving a forgotten, unlocked back door, for red pill / blue pill to enter your mental house.
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The internet driven, back of a comic book like, red pill / blue pill meme.
It's easy to push people to pick sides and makes choices: capitalize on the desire for feelings of empowerment.

Anger is the easiest emotion to invoke and the fastest to spread (except for Awe).

"What Emotion Goes Viral the Fastest?"
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/scien...est-180950182/

We all live in systems that marginalize us.
Some have felt that more than others and that likely increases susceptibility to the meme attack.

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The first, cohorts to be effectively politically activated using Red Pill / Blue Pill were truckers and divorced dads.

(declaration: I have general respect for these cohorts. The jobs, the journeys, the trails and tribulations. Nothing below is meant to belittle the groups or individuals within them.)

Because of age, position, lifestyle, and on the job activities, there is a cohort that was both desirable and easy to manipulate red red and blue -- truckers.

Truckers, every day having to mess with red and blue air hoses.
All those moments of on the job frustration, making things fit right, in the sun, rain sleet and snow -- morning noon and night.

Plus it is a job that where workers spend a lot of time alone, and that is significant if you think about it.

It could lead straight to an increase in a meme's effectiveness.
That's deep social/cultural/experiential training.

The second group that was/is most easily to manipulate -- divorced men.
Stress, anxiety, stress, anxiety, stress, anxiety, and some financial hardships coupled with feelings of powerlessness.

Because of what was lost, residual anger / resentment and financial difficulties.
Almost always on the losing end, in court, custody and financially.

And it's the dad, the man, that is most often left to spend a lot of time alone after a divorce, and that's significant if you think about it.

• It was the red pill that mostly activated the meme.
• It was the red pill that kick started the social hack attack.
• It was the red pill that was first used as a political weapon.

From there, like highly profitable bad medication, the red pill and blue pill grew larger and grew to include many different colors.
A social media 'pharmaceutical industry' pushing red and blue pills, perhaps question what they are selling.

(I am a NON-partisan American who has not voted since around the year 2000)
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Why red / blue fundamentally?

We're primates, it's a deep biological / neurological function -- how we see and respond to colors.

Red is urgency, blue is trust (in the marketing world) -- Bank of America colors.
And it just works on people, subconsciously, and in regards to marketing / influence they are designed to work together -- urgency and trust.

My eyes train me.
My experience trains me.
My physiological reactions effect me.
My biology guides me.

That is true for everyone.

Consider this... the largest banks.

By amount of money:
#1 bank = Chase, brand color is blue
#2 bank = Bank of America (BOA), brand colors are red and blue

By number of customers:
#1 bank = Citi Group, brand colors red and blue
#2 bank = Capital One Financial Corporation brand colors red and blue

Red pill / blue pill has hard wired elements to subconsciously trigger the largest number of people on personal finance.
Red pill / blue pill was also a wallet / financial hack attack, and I didn't know that until today, when I made this post and looked more deeply at the banking industry (deeper than just BOA).

Marketing 101, capitalize upon the visceral reaction, activate it.

• Red = urgency
• Blue = trust
• Red is blood outside your body!
• Blue is blood inside your body.

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The Matrix Movie, oh geesh the recycled bull shit in that movie.
I mean, gee what a classic. At an educated guess: a script born from elements of high ACE, neuroatypical, resentment at society.

A script likely born from family trauma.
What is born from damage, tends to create more damage. That is not necessarily true, just statistically probable.
It takes a large amount of consistent effort to seek meaningful, positive change.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_pill_and_blue_pill

• I am careful of whose scripts I follow.
• I am careful whose scripts I allow to influence me.

Some of the reasons that I do not care about Matrix + trans. I have no strong feelings. "It is what it is," and I don't often use that phrase:

• https://community.loghomebuilders.or...erlink-Ithkull
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_at_the_Matrix_1967
• https://www.the-scientist.com/univer...periment-69941
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Leary
• https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/...125756913.html
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_McKenna
• https://community.loghomebuilders.or...Isle-of-Lesbos
• Fight, Flight, F*ck, Fawn, Freeze: High ACE and emotional/behavioral miscues.
• Systemic environmental pollution with hormone disrupting chemicals.
• Growing use of SSRIs and other experimental medications with unexplainable cause for effect aka, they 'seem' to work, but they don't know why they work, or what else they do.
• The recycled philosophy contained within the movie. I mean, universal, historically repetitive themes.
• Belief states, more than anything except Mother Nature, have shaped the world.
• Non-standard sexual expression is the thing that has always existed to some degree, which is leveraged for maximum social disharmony.
• The high ratio of neuroatypicals within the cohort, meaning, the cohorts largely overlap.
• Politics has always run one of the most powerful of social codes: "It's for the children." Well now that issue is far more emotionally charged that Tipper Gore's anti-explicit lyric efforts. I say, always question 'declared good intentions.'

As an entertainment / profit juggernaut, the Matrix an impressive franchise.
As purely, highly stylistic art, with novel special effects at the time, the Matrix represents high achievement.
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Pop cultural, political manipulative crap = red pill / blue pill.

Don't let that sort of thinking catch you or a loved one, especially in moments of vulnerability to such core hack attacks.

It's worth considering who the red pill / blue pill pushers were / are, and consider all the possible motives / consequences. Heck if I have the solid answers to those questions, I just know I should never trust pill pushers.
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Most of what a person encounters in life is either BS, a trick or the opposite of what it seems.
Or somewhere along a spectrum of deception.

(there is no anger, resentment, holier than though attitude / projection intended in any of the above. It's an assessment, as real as it gets.

Consider where else red / blue has been ingrained in your brain...
i.e. gangs, Crips v. Bloods = blue versus red and I say that with respect too.
i.e. red and blue lights, on top of police cars, give anyone with experience an increased heart rate -- speeders beware, are those lights coming for you or the person ahead of you? Pulse quickens, anxiety spikes.

We are all subjects of social/cultural programming and it's easy to weaponize that, and use it against specific cohorts.)