The Red Pill or The Blue Pill?

In the future, I would like to have this conversation with my son. The young kid asking about life and clueless of what he wants to do. Then I ask him, "The red pill or the blue pill?".

"Take the blue pill and I'll let you be like the 99% of people in the world. Believe what you want to believe, religion, personal finance, politics, work and other politically correct things that the ideal person have about the world all shiny and perfect."

"Take the red pill and I'll show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. The journey will be painful, but it is of the truth and I'll show you how to hack the system."

The world is a system. Money is part of it. While most of us continue to take the blue pill everyday. Going to work, earning money and thinking that someday we'll be rich, and believing that we are making a difference in the world, there are only a few people who would actually question the system.

That is, question if there is actually another pill.

The blue pill is the blissful lie of the world. The red pill is the painful truth. And 99% of the people in the world would want a happy life full of white lies than it is to face the painful reality.

For example, the government spends a lot of money in building confidence to the people. Surveys only quantifies the rating of the president by confidence/trust. That is a blue pill. The red pill is that, is the government effective/efficient? They spend more money on building confidence (commercials, feeding program, charity) than it is to create an efficient/effective government (corruption, law enforcement, science & technology, education).

In other words, you are being fed blue pills by the government. When you watch TV, you see those politicians reassuring you that everything is alright, that you need to trust them that the country is prospering, jobs are being created, every Filipino is rising from poverty, every criminal is being prosecuted, and every corrupt politicians being charged.

But, is it really the reality?

Religion, personal finance and work is no different. Many people would die to take the blue pill. If you never ever dreamed of questioning these things, then you might have been taking the blue pill all your life. You are dependent to it.