It’s not a spoiler to say he takes the red pill, otherwise, there would be no movie, right? Once awake, he discovers the whole of society is being farmed, precisely like battery hens. Keanu Reeves’ Neo character is offered the chance to either take the blue pill and go back to living in a dream world, or take the red pill and discover the brutal reality of his existence. Take the red pill and join me.The Matrix is dazzlingly clever distillation of philosophical ideas and thought experiments into a sci-fi matinée actioner itself can be viewed in red-pill mode, or blue-pill mode. I’m only just beginning to explore how deep this rabbit hole is. The red pill leads to integrity and authenticity an education worth working for. Rather we should, like Neo, help them understand that there is merit in choosing harsh reality over comfortable illusion. We cannot blame our school leaders for choosing the comfortable falsity of the blue pill world. In short, the red pill presents too many inconvenient truths. Indeed their efforts might actually lead to higher educational standards if we decouple ourselves from the Matrix. Politicians can still talk tough, ‘drive’ school improvement and be intolerant of poor standards. The red pill world is not one without accountability. Our task masters need to take the red pill too. League tables don’t show learning they couldn’t be more abstracted from the internal processes of the human mind.
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