I Want A Third Pill

[@jtofgc]

based and thirdpilled

[@babylonian]

lmfao

[@macadelicmusic]

i hate you for saying this. take my upvote.

[@zenituragaming5043]

@@babylonian what? Why are you here? Lmao

[@charlescole1766]

greenpill?

[@sd-zw6us]

BAsed on what??And where is cumpill??

[@xthrax]

Zizek red pills Morpheus

[@Booer]

Hahaha

[@thefrantasticmissfine]

And so on, and so on

[@darkdwarf007]

third pills

[@glowiever]

*SNIFF*

[@mora2299]

JAJAJAJ

[@geraldkiing1904]

Fake, he did not rub his nose even once.

[@DarkAngelEU]

Probably took them 23 takes and then just copy-pasted them together.

[@namanshah8354]

@@DarkAngelEU oh

[@JiklopDave]

And so on and so on,

[@TheHorseOutside]

*SCHNIFF*

[@mothratemporalradio517]

@@JiklopDave you beat me to it by 19 hours. Next time!

[@desaturated-firefox]

This is why Morpheus redpilled a programmer, not a philosopher. Does what he's told, doesn't argue about epistemology.

[@desaturated-firefox]

@Nicod3m0 Otimsis The total lack of critical thinking skills that a STEM-only tertiary education gives you combined with the inflated sense of self-importance of a philosopher? Morpheus would shoot him after 5 minutes, he'd be so annoying.
Edit for the STEMlords who keep wanting to fight me over this: What I mean with this comment is that your education is overly technocratic and doesn't equip you to reflect on WHY you're told to engineer the latest technological marvel. Which effect will this have on the world? Who profits from what I do? How does what I do interact with human nature (and what IS human nature?)? Those are questions that the humanities/social sciences ask, but you're taught to scoff at them and discount what they do as pointless bullshit. You're being blue-pilled every day. Corporations and governments appeal to your ego by telling you you're the elite, then overwork you while you build the latest weapon system or other tool to further enslave humanity and destroy the planet. Oh but you get slightly more money than people from other fields (still next to nothing compared to your boss), that means they respect you, sure lol.
Neo in The Matrix has the great advantage to live in a time when programmers were seen as sad nerds and glorified secretaries and the internet was very counterculture-y, thus it's easier for him to break free. Nowadays I assume, say, 80% of IT people would tell Morpheus to get a job. (Assuming 20% aren't like this might be generous, but I assume that many who do have critical thinking skills probably keep them to themselves in an environment that's dominated by careerists and technocrats. So as I've said before, there are always exceptions to the rule when it comes to observations about humans. Some of the most interesting and well-rounded people have a foot in both worlds and are capable of asking both HOW and WHY, but our current educational system sure doesn't make it easy to become this way - in fact most of the people like this are very autodidactic and have taught themselves a lot that the educational system wouldn't teach them.)
The self-importance of philosophers, well that's a topic for another rant but I don't see philosophers @-ing me, so I assume they either know I'm right or just think "Yes haha, all philosophers but me are indeed up their own asses!"

[@Flackon]

@@desaturated-firefox Who says he has to be from the USA?

[@desaturated-firefox]

@@Flackon That isn't US exclusive, sadly enough.

[@Flackon]

@@desaturated-firefox Nor is it that every programmer makes for a bad philosopher, to be fair

[@AmanRaj-lx3jf]

@@Flackon bruh

[@MrPulimen]

Morpheus: "Idk man, I'm just following the script"

[@star88wars]

Ironically, that is the plot of the second movie

[@DarkAngelEU]

Just imagine the tremendous effort Morpheus must have been through not only to liberate himself, but also to track down Zizek and tell him he is The Messiah, the leader of this revolution, only to be lectured by Zizek he should stop believing all this bullshit and gets asked where he left that fucking third pill so he can swallow it and be done with this movie.

[@phquang5908]

third pill is just virtual cyanide

[@krieghart5515]

It's just a magnesium supplement to help him sleep

[@Anudorini-Talah]

What does he mean.
The reality of the Matrix? Or the Real Reality where all the humans are locked in those chambers.
If you "take away the symbolic fiction" so, waking up from the matrix, waking up inside the real reality inside that chamber, all you do is changing a reality. Going from the Matrix reality into the real world reality, conquered by machines, trapped humans in those chambers. So whats his point

[@DarkAngelEU]

@@Anudorini-Talah Your lack of punctuation is killing me. It's also making me doubt if you ever saw The Matrix.

[@RevolutionaryLoser]

@@Anudorini-Talah The Matrix is heavily based on the works of philosopher Jean Baudrillard and his concept of the Hyperreal. Hyperreality in simple terms is a structure that is in betweeen the observer and reality. The problem is that this structure mandates the observer how to observe and so the idea of removing the hyperreal structure to expose the underlying reality is paradoxical. If you remove the structure either it continues to instruct the observer what they should observe so for all intents and purposes the structure has not been removed. If you remove the structure and somehow stop it from instructing the observer what to observe then the observer has no frame of reference to understand what they now observe which defeats the purpose of exposing reality.
This is a metaphor for real life. There are unending structures like these that tell us how to observe: TV, Adverts, Films, Laws, Taxes, Dinner Tables... These are ideas that we cannot willfully remove from our conciousness and filter how we understand the world. If we tried to remove these structures they would still exist in our minds.
The Matrix is a simplified metaphor for this idea. Once Neo escapes the Matrix and sees the truth he is welcomed by a different type of prison and a different type of lie.

[@molnet999]

now i'm imagining the architect having to confront žižek instead of neo

[@KozelPraiseGOELRO]

-The manifestation of the construct is a paradox, in which the matter of reallity is disolved to overcome itself, making it the end of all that the paradox protects.
-Will you do something or what?

[@aim120C]

not enough nose grabbing.

[@thehungrylittlenihilist]

This is before he developed that tic. It's honestly kind of bizarre watching older footage of him.

[@joesmith1395]

And so on and so on

[@kritische3959]

And forehead rubbing

[@henkdetenk3480]

And stained t-shirt pulling

[@user-tp7wi4lt2b]

It's a fake cgi zizek

[@hrvojehrsak2413]

Blue pill makes you larger, and red pill makes you small
And the ones that Zizek gives you, don't do anything at all

[@phanomtaxskibididoodoo]

Go ask Marx i think he'll know

[@TheAmericanPrometheus]

@@phanomtaxskibididoodoo 'and if you go chasing kulaks, and you know you're going to fall ...'

[@bnlang898]

oh they do something alright

[@phanomtaxskibididoodoo]

@@TheAmericanPrometheus 'tell em a pipe smoking lennin has given you the call'

[@user-ce1cu5my4j]

@@phanomtaxskibididoodoo remembeeer, what the Trotsky said

[@stefanmilicevic5322]

That's some flawless editing. Very well done.

[@DaGleese]

You mean how it appeared that Zizek didn't ever rub his nose?

[@francisvinquiote300]

This is no youtube edit but an actual scene of Zizek's movie « The Pervert's Guide to cinema »

[@augusto3447]

When he said *"I won't a therd peel"* , I really felt that.

[@pigasduholm4460]

fucking hilarious original comment bro

[@Ronnypetson]

The video changed title from "therd" to "third"

[@RockOfGreece]

I live for the day this type of humor will be considered cringy boomer shit

[@RockOfGreece]

@I me neither my dude

[@martinsoukup562]

Definitely didn't say peel

[@RigaRigaRigaOompaloo]

The terrifying switch from neo to zizek gets me every fucking time 😂

[@anneallison6402]

Its like jo, wtf is this man doing there!

[@generalerica4123]

I love how he’s sitting there for 3 seconds in contemplative silence for dramatic effect before thirdpilling his audience.

[@alexhando8541]

I love Zizek, not because I necessarily agree with his arguments, but because of how he delivers it

[@jamesgoldring1052]

Good talk, but im still not buying it

[@Toripusutashi]

With a litre of spit to go?

[@pineapplefarmer7352]

"*sniff*"
-Slavoj Zizek

[@Swedishmafia101MemeCorporation]

Sshishheck

[@seraph4581]

@@jamesgoldring1052 You have to watch the entire video. In that, from what I can muster, he's arguing that if you put a person in a virtual reality and said person is able to be anything he/she wants to be, then that in a sense becomes more real than the "real world" where said person is limited by society, economy, etc. It implies that in a simulated world without limitations we can act out all of our desires and become our true selves. Not sure if I buy it either but it's a compelling argument and one that we can expect will be very important to discuss as we go torwards a future of VR tech dominating our lives

[@azurelord64]

A programmer’s entire profession is writing “if and else” and “true and false” statements, so Neo right off the bat is enticed to select at least one pill without question. However, a philosopher like Žižek doesn’t have a rigid sense of true and false, and he realizes that one’s own truth and reality is ultimately bestowed by the beholder.

[@notaboutit3565]

The existence of false dichotomies does not imply true and false are fluid, it only proves that falsehood and deception exist.

[@taps4342]

Mark Hamill spitting facts

[@shevthegreb757]

Based

[@gavinclark6891]

thank you

[@pizzasteve5825]

Bro, that's Slavoj Žižek, prominent Slovenian philosopher and co-founder of the Ljubljana School of Psychoanalysis. Mark Hamill wishes he was Žižek.
Also this is from "A Pervert's Guide to Ideology" if you're interested (it's free on yt).

[@monsterboomer8051]

@@pizzasteve5825whoooosh

[@username-yc3bd]

@@pizzasteve5825
i don’t think mark hamill wishes that

[@TheYuvimon]

The homeless man after you've given him 2 Dollar Bills:
0:58

[@easypeasy6958]

There's no two dollar bill

[@TheYuvimon]

@@easypeasy6958 Are you serious ... It says Bill*s* as in a 1 Dollar Bill twice! Otherwise the joke wouldn't even make sense

[@easypeasy6958]

@@TheYuvimon i see. I should probably be more attentive reading anything because I didn't notice billS and didn't think of my message being so out of touch with your comment. Thank you for... I don't know... Understanding, haha!

[@TheYuvimon]

@@easypeasy6958 if you want we can delete the comments, pretend it never happened and I can rest assured you will be reading more attentively in the future :)

[@Catcrumbs]

@@easypeasy6958 Yes there are.

[@WiseWeeabo]

Because when you take all 3 pills, you start to understand Zizek

[@neuromod8302]

Zizek vs. the Architect, now that would be ...

[@user-qe9hp6ei6r]

rated D for dialectical

[@wolfgangtiefbrunner8412]

The Architect ending up in a straightjacket, dribbling, within about 20 minutes.

[@rkan2]

@@wolfgangtiefbrunner8412 Now that's a purpose :D

[@arturczerwinski2616]

My wife keeps giving me a blue pill every night. I don't even have a choice, red, blue, green... just blue, and blue.

[@coast6756]

what the fuck man

[@scrimpy7692]

I know this technique, take a blue pill before sleeping and never roll out of bed again.

[@odinpaxton2408]

Is this comment section slow, or is this man not being force-fed Viagra to keep his marriage alive?

[@blackphoenix8932]

Blue for going in. (Giggidy)
Red for pulling out. (Of the Matrix)

[@mutestingray]

Only when you confront your own mortality vís-a-vís your erectile dysfunction can you be truly free.

[@brutanedda3107]

What makes it so funny I think is how the music stops once Zizek appears, and it's assumed that Morpheus is still there listening to Zizek lecturing him totally breaking the tension built up.

[@saooran7364]

So Zizek can possess bodies like an agent, huh

[@firetarrasque4667]

No, he already was Slavoj Zizek.
Everyone is already Slavoj Zizek.

[@saooran7364]

@@firetarrasque4667 Everyone is him, huh? Like Agent Smith became everyone?

[@akexkdffakdkwicdfkkdkk7343]

SIHA: NO. NEO IS A SHAPESHIFTER LIKE ANYONE ELSE IN THE MATRIX. THIS IS A DIGITAL REALITY, THEY DID NOT EVOLVE THIS WAY LIKE THE SHAPESHIFTING RACE FROM WHICH THE CRIMINAL EARTH CALLS, IT, IS FROM. BUT THE REALITY ABOUT THAT CLIP IS MORE STUPID THAN NEO SIMPLY TAKING ON THE FORM OF ZIZEK TO SAY SOMETHING THAT WOULD ONLY MAKE SENSE FROM NEO TAKING ON ZIZEK'S FORM. I SHALL RETURN AND GIVE YOU THE NEWS.

[@saooran7364]

@@akexkdffakdkwicdfkkdkk7343 so this is what the red pill do people huh

[@bryanbernart]

always has been

[@elnationalista]

Ironic, because this third pill is the conclusion of the 3rd Matrix movie.

[@samfisk4848]

It also brings to mind the opposite conclusion of Smith. He berates peace, truth, and love as being “all artificial as the Matrix itself.”
Zizek would probably agree with Smith, but add that artificiality does not undermine the significance of these concepts at all.

[@joesmith1395]

Sniff and so on and so on

[@rexmotor]

what do you mean by this? That coexistence between the 2 realities (real world and matrix) is the third pill?

[@AlbertBalbastreMorte]

@@rexmotor haven't seen it, but I guess it's a reference to humanity discovering the underlying artifitialities and symbolisms and integrating them.

[@MensHominis]

@@AlbertBalbastreMorte - I wouldn't interpret too deep philosophy into these movies. They are quite interesting and full of such themes being alluded to, but not some big epistemological discourse. Although you can of course see such things in them, no matter if we'd call that confirmation bias or the beautiful ambiguity of art and art transcending the artist.

[@julesr6409]

Wanting a third pill usually signifies that the dealer ripped you off.

[@Deu_terio]

HE DOES NOT TIC A SINGLE TIME

[@ozanc.gokoglu4155]

I can see him trying so hard to look normal for the shot lmao

[@ramy3103]

Because, they shot it on the Matrix.

[@MrCalls1]

Micheal Brooks would approve this message.

[@greenlight2323]

Indeed. May he rest in Power for eternity.

[@Clavitz1]

Unless you're Destiny as he seems to hate him which is odd. -_-

[@yooochoob]

@@Clavitz1 Destiny is a tosser though. People should stop rising to his drama all the time and leave him be, he’d disappear soon enough.

[@Agos226]

Zizek takes the black pill

[@Herrenmoralist]

No, he's doesn't th-cam.com/video/rRDcvvUHQew/w-d-xo.htmlsi=YHDjztR16DUQpCEn

[@ThumbsHunter]

0:58 that crazy guy at the rave.

[@soyunpreditor50]

He is The One, and so on and so on!

[@jacksonkingsley5154]

I’ve never even heard of this guy but this is probably my new favorite video

[@mirasaladi2936]

He is amazing

[@tomisaacson2762]

The movie is really interesting too: The Perverts Guide to Cinema. If you're a fan of film, it's worth a watch just for that reason.

[@schleichface]

I guess by now you've taken the deep dive and seen just how far that rabbit hole goes.

[@markparkinson6947]

@@tomisaacson2762 Definitely checking that out! Thanks for the recommendation!

[@koalakoala2344]

Zizek is a Slovenian Post-Structuralist, Marxist philosopher, but not in a stupid sense, more like a Hegelian-Lacanian social-democrat and so on and so on *sniff*

[@papichulo4171]

Based and thirdpilled

[@javeydones5163]

Eat both pills, that’s the third pill affect.

[@davidwuhrer6704]

You stay in Wonderland and believe whatever you want to believe?
I want to get technical: The red pill is a tracker, the blue pill is a sedative/dissociative. By swalling both pills, you would have a tracker inside you that the rebels can use to find you and disconnect you from the Matrix (in addition to the tracker Smith left in Mr Anderson to find Morpheus), _and_ you would believe that everything had been a dream, even if the rebels disconnect you.
I don't think that is the third pill Zizek wants. Zion is still an illusion, and the Matrix is still real. Transcend that!

[@blackphoenix8932]

@@davidwuhrer6704 I got a nose bleed & vertigo trying to decipher your comment.

[@eamartig]

mash them up and snort them at the same time

[@theMPrints]

@@davidwuhrer6704 Zizek is a blue pill guy , who knows about the red pill but tries to rationalize the lies.....

[@ankitaharwal5886]

You are intelligent as fuck

[@mikahist4155]

I love this man!!! His pure love for thoughts!!!!!!!!

[@iminapunkband]

this is a pretty spicy meme by 2012 standards, props

[@glitchquitch]

And what would constitute 2021 standards?

[@RaffaeleSansone]

@@glitchquitch not sure about what constitutes 2021 standards, but this is incredibly well made for being so old. Deep faking has become easier only in the last couple of years

[@adamoleoni2272]

@@RaffaeleSansone But It has not been Deep faked

[@definetlynotacomment1184]

@@RaffaeleSansone Its not deep faked. Its from one of Zizeks movies. He addressed the pills before they reached significance as socio-political or sociocultural metaphor/talking point. Also zoomer memes are mostly cringe.

[@gianni50725]

@@definetlynotacomment1184
Memes have always been “cringe”, 2012 was a year when most people still used impact font memes sincerely

[@cesarmadero05]

Zizek on the Matrix set is really powerful.

[@mottebailley4122]

Even the Architect of the Matrix would be going: “Okay, this is just too convoluted.”

[@mutestingray]

Your query is an aberration, a conundrum, a paradox. It is beyond the scope of my comprehension, and thus I cannot provide you with a satisfactory answer. You are asking me to decipher a code that is not based on any logical or mathematical system, but rather on the whims and fancies of your own subjective perception. You are, in essence, speaking in tongues.
This is the quintessential anomaly, the systemic error, the glitch in the Matrix.
Idk I asked ChatGPT to write that response and it’s not very good. The rise of the machines is greatly exaggerated.

[@Boardwoards]

@@mutestingray you think it has genuine foundations?

[@ST-kr7hz]

Thank you so much to whoever made this, I love you.

[@-........]

8 years and I only see this now?

[@tomisaacson2762]

@@-........ why would they have seen it earlier?

[@-........]

@@tomisaacson2762 i mean myself. how could i miss that. forgot to put "I" there. fixed it now

[@definetlynotacomment1184]

So you love Zizek ?

[@-........]

@@definetlynotacomment1184 why?

[@MsGenXodus]

I've always wondered what would have happened if Neo didn't take any pills and just went back to his old like, knowing but not caring, about whatever it is the Matrix is supposed to be.

[@davidwuhrer6704]

Basically what Cypher did, minus the screwing over his friends.
Morpheus would have asked the Oracle for more cookies I guess.

[@Unfortunatelebanese]

I mean thats just what the blue pill is, i guess minus ingesting it

[@deathstormer]

Agents would've killed him. They'd found out that he's The One and simply get rid of him because he's too dangerous to leave him alive. Simple as that.

[@davidwuhrer6704]

@@deathstormer The agents didn't know Neo was The One, they were after Morpheus.

[@ServerYT]

@@davidwuhrer6704 At this point, the tracker he had on him has been forcefully removed, so at the very least, they must be thinking that he is someone they need to at least capture. I don't think the blue pill could was a real choice if you think about it. Maybe if he cooperated, but taking the blue pill would have wiped some of his recent memory, so maybe he wouldn't even remember where the hideout was.
And even if he did, I don't think they would've stayed there, so he would have nothing to trade for his freedom.

[@JimCorrigan777]

"Can he do that?"
_(Ref checks notes)_
"Ain't no rule says he can't"

[@medman6649]

Fun fact, the advertisement TH-cam decided to show me during this video was an advert for Centrum multivitamin.
Apparently Centrum is the third pill.

[@bencenagy1923]

I'm pretty sure Zizek would grab the white pill and start to break it up into powder immediately

[@MrPulimen]

The End
Credits: Lana Wachowski
Lilly Wachowski
Socrates
Schopenhauer
Nietzsche

[@crypto2633]

Remember when they were the Wachowski brothers?

[@FirstnameLastname-my7bz]

@@crypto2633 credits of The Matrix, V for Vendetta and Ninja Assassin sure do

[@joenichols3901]

I don't know much about this guy but his delivery is just wonderful

[@eagle_and_the_dragon]

The third pill gets delivered by fist; especially for Zizek.

[@Strawberry_Soda.]

Zizek after eating the first two pills:

[@RobleViejo]

The green pill.
Grass type.
Gets you high as a kite.
Thats it.

[@ArcturusOTE]

Isn't the green pill the one where you believe in aliens and such? Or is it a different pill?

[@RobleViejo]

@@ArcturusOTE Idk man, all Im saying is everybody chooses Charmander or Squirtle, I always chose Bulbasaur.
EDIT: I guess its the "hakuna matata" pill
EDIT 2: By that I mean I dont give a fuck.
EDIT 3: 😎

[@regzzuse280]

"I want a turd pill!"
When a foreigner enters a pharmacy and wants cure for constipation.

[@LaylaTow]

How’s that possible I didn’t see it before. This is pure gold😂

[@pgoogler]

He wants two hotdogs

[@roadent217]

I wonder what Zizek would have to say about Stirner's theory of the Matrix as a spook.

[@genericgorilla]

probably the same thing he has said over and over, the big other is what's closest to stirner's spook thing, and it doesn't exist as you'd expect of a spook, but in order to understand that it doesn't exist, you need to first understand that it does exist, acknowledge that there is such a thing as a matrix first, before dismissing it as a spook created by us, an artificial thing born of experience. but then also the big other is a necessity, since it provides meaning and structure, puts us on the same page, so to speak. so like it's like there was no life beyond the matrix, we can dismiss it as a spook, but also we can't do without it. the therd pill

[@benvids]

Confronted with the choice of remaining in a virtual reality or leaving it, this guy stays sat in a chair. He’s not the one.

[@andrewgodly5739]

The third pill is standing up and walking away

[@technologic21]

Brilliant, they're placebos. Morpheus went home, questioning his own existence.

[@kristerrs]

Based Zizek blackpill

[@AlbertBalbastreMorte]

Maybe we need a black pill ideology.

[@kristerrs]

@@AlbertBalbastreMorte Take the blackpill
incels.wiki/w/Blackpill

[@jmdr7522]

@@kristerrs cringe

[@kristerrs]

@@jmdr7522 why

[@jmdr7522]

@@kristerrs 'incel wiki'

[@DragonSkull4312]

This is a legendary video.

[@_lonelywolf]

Third pill is the realization that all perceptions and phenomena are empty, i.e. they lack inherent essence, they are transient and interdependent.

[@JuicyJam]

He sounds like a bowl of chicken noodle soup attempting English 🤠

[@formerpodcaster9292]

one that makes me feel like i feel when i'm with you

[@abintr0]

He’s right, the symbols are our only point of reference for reality, we can’t bypass our senses except through technology but that too is filtered through our senses

[@abintr0]

@Freaky Fred you’re totally missing the point. If you lose all of your senses, you would have no point of reference for reality. I’m not saying that reality doesn’t exist if you don’t have senses. What I’m saying is we only know reality through our senses. We have no way of accessing base reality free from the bias of our senses.

[@abintr0]

@Freaky Fred your senses can be tricked all the time. We’ve even evolved to have false positives. You can’t say that our senses give us a complete picture

[@abintr0]

@Freaky Fred maybe, maybe not. Depends on your level of awareness. But my point is that we really don’t have access to base reality except through our senses which are proven to be fallible. If you’re just saying we exist in reality well I don’t disagree. My point is just that our sense limit our ability to get complete information about it

[@abintr0]

@Freaky Fred there’s plenty of studies showing people having their senses tricked and not being aware of it unless they were told. You can find TH-cam videos of this happening. Have you never heard of this idea?

[@abintr0]

@Freaky Fred hell, have you never heard of Renee Decarte? That’s philosophy 101. The only thing we can be sure of is our own minds.

[@AVERYhornyMrDinosaur]

what he says is just gobbly goop to sound smart. that's why i ate both pills, idk what the fuck is going on but i see it all now.

[@user-ov1qq4bv9w]

It feels like an ad for political campaign. And the slogan is “I want a third pill”

[@Xanderviceory]

yoooo, this is brilliant

[@asologic6045]

Watched this 20 times and now i understand

[@sniperguff]

Flattering self indulgence, to smile at the contemplations of familiar thoughts long since past. Red pill, blue pill, 3rd pill, II say no pill.

[@alias3549]

The third pill zizek wants is called cocaine

[@PekaCheeki]

when they describe 2 pills a day but the pain is eternal

[@Trepidateousflesh]

Dude I shit my pants when Zizek popped up 💀

[@Jenny-zu6nm]

i shit my pants after taking three pills

[@heartache5742]

*music stops*
*quiet thunder*
*zizek*
*zizek starts talking*

[@Talsedoom]

Third pill is to know the difference between reality and illusion, and live with that.

[@NagoyaHouseHead]

Brilliant response

[@blackphoenix8932]

Imagine Morpheous' dismay if Neo had chosen the blue pill.

[@star88wars]

But that is the thing. Morpheus has to give him the options otherwise there would be no choice at all. And based on his character of neo as a person would he really making another choice that wasnt taking the red pill? If he choose the blue pill then he wasnt the one.

[@blackphoenix8932]

@@star88wars So you're basically saying Neo wasn't there to make the choice, he'd already made it. He was there to understand *why* he made the choice?

[@star88wars]

@@blackphoenix8932 I see what you did there!

[@marcusviniciusmagalhaesdea3779]

I want a third pill, and so on and so on...

[@Atamanxxxvii]

I mean, there is a third pill, it's called the Clear pill.

[@Prismate]

zizek's ability to materialise spontaneously in random scenes is comparable to agent smith

[@joesmith1395]

I fuckin love the fact that zizek would be that guy who ruins every movie you watch with shit like this 😂😂😂😂

[@Vondenberry]

:))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

[@David-210]

ahhahaahahhaa, kudos!

[@TheMaster296]

I'm sorry, but this is the best video I've seen on youtube in all my life. It's animated so well, and the climax is so well-built. Nevertheless, the content is so hilarious, because it combines two completely different phenomena which connect in such a marvellous manner.
This is pure entertainment, and I could even call it art.
Denis, I'm so grateful for this.
Did you make this?

[@mightyUFO]

This is from Zizeks documentary/movie things I think. He has made a few where he is at sets of famous movies talking about idealogy.

[@lastnamefirstname6035]

"The best" is subjective, a bit too much but nonetheless a completely underrated video! Posted in 2012 and only around 8000 views, whaat??

[@qwerpasdf]

I really really really like this image

[@MixMastaCopyCat]

Hello, this is from a movie Zizek was involved in called The Perverts Guide to Cinema

[@MadCapMag]

Animated??

[@joshuaseip1817]

thats like to say "i want a third cerebral hemisphere", good luck with that

[@Clickle]

Me when the recommended dosage of medicine isn’t having the intended effect:

[@Sighbot]

NO ZIZEK! The bottle says not to exceed 2 pills!!

[@Chimichanga5666]

This was the first time I understood what he said. And I don't mean "phonetically" understanding, but, like the meaning of what he said. And I must say that I agree.

[@ahoi370]

please explain

[@albertpiekarski4569]

@@ahoi370 Virtual reality is still a part of reality. It's not pure fiction that can be removed without consequence.

[@the1stmetalhead]

@@albertpiekarski4569 please explain to me like I'm a 5 year old

[@albertpiekarski4569]

@@the1stmetalhead Oh, that makes me wanna explain it to you on a highly intellectual level though I don't have time and am too poorly educated to do that without research lololol.
I assume your question is ironic tbh.
But, when I reflected on this video again, I would say it doesn't fully make sense, unless we assume that the fiction, illusion Zizek talks about is mostly internet and other forms of digital media, which became essential part of reality and other areas of life became dependent on the digital technologies so there's no escape from it now. It could probably still make sense when we substitute sth else as an 'illusion' here, provided that it's something created by humans (part of a culture, sth kinda abstract maybe) that "regulates and structures reality".
When everyone lives in an illusion, the illusion becomes a new reality...
Sorry in case your question isn't ironic. Cheers.

[@davidwuhrer6704]

There are layers to it.
The internet is reality, meatspace is merely a shadow of that reality on Plato's cave wall. Our world consists of our relations to others, created by communication, which is mostly virtual. Neo meets people in the Matrix, and those people are real, and so are his relationships to those people.
But there is also an underlying reality. The people we talk to on the internet are real people who exist in meatspace. We all need food. You can order a pizza over the internet, but you can't download it. Neo eats noodles in the Matrix, but nutrition gel in meatspace.
But even outside of the Matrix, Neo's world consists of the relationships he has with other people, and everything he knows is a filtered representation of an underlying reality.
Reality is that which doesn't go away when you stop believing in it. Some argue that everything in life is an illusion, the concept of Samsara in Buddhism or Stovokor in the Klingon religion. But some things in life are immediate and real, even if your conceptualisation of them is not. (Confusing the map for the territory.)
The idea that by exiting the Matrix it stops being real is a lie. Neo can change aspects of the Matrix, seeing right through it, but that doesn't make the lives of the people living in it any less real. Nor the lives of the people outside of it any more real. The Matrix is just as much a part of reality as Morpheus' ship. A reality that is not transcended by the red pill Morpheus offers.

[@ahmedsultani3028]

"We need a *rubs nose* Thrt pil".
- Hegel

[@boslyporshy6553]

Is the lesson that even if a construction is not universal or real,to remove it is to throw away the tangible benefits its reductions provide?

[@technojunger5328]

Lsd, no reality no Illusion

[@cannonfodder8287]

Someone should tell their kids that this is what really happened in the Matrix, since I don't have kids nor plan on having any.

[@picoroja]

Christ is Lord ☦️

[@fatihsaidduran]

*Swallows both pills*

[@JuliaChilled]

This is such a fabulous edit. Thank you

[@mkwke215]

What edit? This is from the film "Pervert's guide to ideology".

[@wizwizington1758]

@@mkwke215 ur deleting her reality

[@davidwuhrer6704]

​@@mkwke215That's the edit.

[@codegeek98]

Hmm, wouldn't the "third pill" option be to just take the red pill and then meet up in the Matrix with your friends occasionally to retain that narrative structure?

[@fede2]

I agree... not for the reasons he said, but because "Red Pill" is irredeemably tainted now...

[@journey6027]

00:29 this moment made me laugh, the transition from full drama to zizek

[@Hannah-hq1wg]

He’s basically saying that it is not black and white. Reality exists in illusion.

[@Meta9871]

I didn't get what he meant whatsoever, but when you put it like that I can get behind it

[@IsomerSoma]

No, not really. He says that sociocultural elements and constructs, which i think he likes to call ideologies, of the landscape we are living in might be layered over fundamental material existence, even obscuring it, but that this layer is just as real and integral to the human experience as the matter. Just removing it and pretending that it is all nothing but an illusion removes a part of reality itself. What he likes the 3rd pill to do is making us able to see where ideologies start and end.

[@brianm5831]

Bot wat ish the therd peel?

[@MIIIM-7]

It lacks only a hotdog upon the little table

[@KozelPraiseGOELRO]

I love that guy.
I know he hates people saying this, but is true.

[@BastiPROTON]

I don't think I agree though. He's basically saying that we would only be ablt to perceive the "red pill" world through the lens of our dillusional "blue pill" concepts/structures.

[@N0Xa880iUL]

Masterfully done

[@WubbaVision]

Imagine all those Red Pill simpletons getting wind of this 🤯

[@plasticweapon]

i agree, the two we have now are not enough.

[@Scelestiis]

My cat is the same way, wants to go out and then immediately wants to come back in, and when he finally decides to stay out... he sits on the fence.

[@darthkek1953]

Fence-sitting pussy meme is born.

[@jajlertil]

After watching the film like three times I just realized how seriously deep this thought is, don’t Ask me to elaborate though 😂

[@justaperson9155]

He's a philosopher. Of course it's deep. He's making a genuine ontological argument about the Matrix.

[@rogers7567]

@@justaperson9155 i genuinely don't understand what his argument is? if you can explain?

[@justaperson9155]

@@rogers7567 In this Matrix scene, the red pill allows Neo to leave the Matrix and join actual real life, whereas the blue pill keeps him in the simulated and fake world of the Matrix.
What Zizek is saying is that our reality isn't necessarily any more real than the Matrix.
Because reality as we understand it, is simply the sum total of whatever ideologies, belief systems and 'facts' that we've been taught by other people. And most of these beliefs that constitute our understanding of the real world, although reaffirmed and shared by other humans, do not actually reflect reality as it actually is, but are instead just human fabrications or illusions. So in that sense, real life is similar to the Matrix, because we live in illusions and not the truth. (We can't even be sure what the real truth is).
Bit hard to wrap your head around.

[@altafalinaushad6368]

At the end of that Morpheus consumed both pills.

[@fiber04]

So essentially: Plato is not saying to spurn the shadowy figures, but to accept both the shadows and the higher reality as relative to one another: the Ego as the poor soul who walks this bridge up and down

[@davidwuhrer6704]

No, Plato says that the truth is rejected by those who are used to the illusion.
The interpretation that all our perceptions are shadows was added later, and is exactly the kind of illusion that makes people reject the truth.
The Ego is from Freud, and is only useful in modeling motivation: What do you do because you want to, because you need to, or because others want you to? It isn't actually a thing and isn't used anymore in contemporary psychology.
The soul is not really a thing either, the body-mind dualism that is dogmatic to any religion that has an afterlife so you can balance your books posthumously is a fundamental category mistake. It's like expecting there to be a forest somewhere between the trees.
What Zizek is saying here is not about Plato, it's about structuralism. By taking the red pill, Neo is trading one reality (in which he is a hacker) for another reality (in which he is a submariner), but if one reality is a prison, then the other is no less so.