Take the Purple Pill "You know that old movie? The Matrix?" the black man asked me. "Yeah. What about it? I might have seen it when I was little." "Really? It was kinda PG-15, wasn't it?" "My parents were real nerds, didn't really care. I watched Alien before I learnt that Santa wasn't real." The man raised his eyebrows. "Alrighty then. As I was saying, you remember the moment, with Morpheus: Take the red pill, leave the Matrix. Take the blue pill, remain blissfully unaware?" "Yeah, yeah, now I remember. Neo picks it, the blue pill." "No dummy, 'cause that would end the story right then and there. Morpheus says to him: 'You take the blue pill—the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill—you stay in Wonderland, and I show you