Red-Pill Chatter

Someone brought this up today....with the novel 'Alice in Wonderland' written by Lewis Carroll in 1865. 

Back in 2010....I sat in a theater and watched the movie version of it (Johnny Depp). 

So at some point in the story, it's suggested that if you take the 'red-pill'....you will see clearly and notice things that you didn't see before.

Then they pipe up and talk about the 'blue-pill'....which is for those who want to keep themselves unfocused....accepting jitters, unease, and distress as being acceptable or the norm. 

I remember this little talk and kinda wondered if it was meant as an amusement piece or political chat moment. 

This was written in 1865, and probably meant to be a introduction for a child that some point will arrive where you either see clearly, or you continue to exist in a pretend world.  I have my doubts that Lewis Carroll meant this as a Orwell-type situation (like in the book 1984). 

The thing is....a lot of the 2010 movie stands out, and this red-pill and blue-pill thing makes journalists and intellectual pause and reflect. 

The odds that a red-red-pill may exist?  That you might see a sudden burst of reality, and gaze past it....for a double effect?  Or that a blue-blue-pill might exist, where your unease was continually reassured, even in the roughest of times?  Or is all this pill discussion just worthless talk you'd conduct with a triple-shot of cognac? 

I've noticed at least two German journalists talking about the 1865 book today, and this red-pill, blue-pill issue.  Maybe it's worth a discussion.  Maybe a thousand German intellectuals will pop into a book store tomorrow....to buy Alice in Wonderland, and re-read it again (40 years after the first reading).