Traditionally there are two pills – the Red Pill and the Blue one. The Blue one means you stay in the “matrix” of conventional opinion and delusion, you stay comfortable and warm, and you no longer concern yourself with the bigger picture or the long term future. That has all been taken care of for you. The Blue Pill represents a kind of infantilism.
The Red Pill represents a rejection of all that, and an awakening to the underlying realities. It is the pill people take just before they become race realists, neo-reactionaries, anti-democrats, or dissident righters. Far from being sugar-coated, it is laced with the bitter taste of total cynicism about all the myths that have been pimped at us 24-7. But ultimately it is not a negative pill, but a positive and even progressive one.
But there is a third pill, the Black Pill, the pill of pure egoism, nihilism, and destruction. It is a pill that leads to suicide, death, and decontextualized violence, and it is increasingly a popular resort in the present age, whether taken by the cannon fodder of ISIS, currently being bombed by the Russian air force, or the likes of Chris Harper Mercer, the latest spree shooter at the college in Umpqua Oregon, who, we are learning may well have been ‘influenced’ by Islam.
All three pills and those who take them implicitly represent inferior states conjoined with an aspiration of superiority. In this sense, they have a dialectical aspect.
As the most passive, the Blue Piller is the most inferior, but the very delusions that pacify and manipulate him, also allow him to think well of himself, to even have a sense of superiority. He may well be an upstanding member of society, and believe that the world is run in his best interests. He may even believe that his type is hegemonic, even while their ears are being filled by the music of the slaughterhouse to which history is leading him and his ilk. The epitome of the Blue Piller is the cuckservative, although liberals too are popping the same pill.
Unlike the Blue Piller, the Red Piller knows that he is not in charge. He knows the dice is loaded, the cards stacked against him. He knows the world is controlled by others with interests disparate from his own. This is his inferiority, but it is an inferiority he recognizes in order to overcome and achieve superiority. He looks the negative aspects of reality squarely in the eye and fights back. The Red Piller is ultimately a positivist and an optimist. Even if he fails in his ultimate goals, he knows that he will at least earn himself an honourable death. On the individual level there is nothing greater to be hoped for. It is only on the collective level that victory counts.
The Blue and Red Pills have a kind of complementary nature: the trajectory of the Blue Pill is from illusory superiority to actual inferiority, that of the Red Pill from false inferiority to true superiority.
The Black Pill is the least dialectical of the three. It leads from actual inferiority back to actual inferiority. It is nihilism, but nihilism made flesh calls forth absolute egoism, a sense of the self detached from wider contexts and responsibilities – it is this that makes it evil and murderous.
The inferior person can either accept context and therefore inferiority, or fight it. The Blue Piller rejects his future inferiority by retreating backwards into illusion. The Red Piller rejects his present lack of superiority by marching forward through positive consciousness and action to redress the situation. The Black Piller, however, chooses neither the palliatives of illusion nor the challenge of positive action. He stares into the abyss – passively because his actions will never be capable of changing it – and as Nietzsche so pertinently observed, the abyss stares back.
Earlier societies may have lacked the knowledge and data of the present age, but they were nonetheless much wiser than our own, especially in dealing with the problems now manifested in the Black Pill.
With our three pills what we are essentially dealing with are three types of people – true alphas, false alphas, and betas, the most numerous category. These types have always existed and for various reasons. The first performs creative action (true civilization), the second illusion (false civilization = decadence), and the third negativity, either as passivity (obedience) or nihilism (barbarism).
These types, as they derive from human biology, have obvious sexual aspects. Past European societies recognized the barbarous and revolutionary potential of the betas, and successful societies found ways to mitigate this, the most important being monogamous societies, in which the females were distributed more equally, although not completely so. Christian and other monogamous societies, like those of the Orient, were thus able to fix the negativity inherent in the beta male. Islam was much less successful, thus accounting for its rapid decline after its fluke rise in the seventh century.
Modern Western societies have broken this healthy pattern of the past with disastrous results, and the results would be even more disastrous if we did not now possess palliatives like drugs, TV, computer games, and porn. This is why recently there has been so much concern over slow internet for Europe's recent influx of betas.
Without a society, like the traditional Christian one that finds a way to balance the deficiencies of the beta male with “sexual welfarism” of the patriarchal society, the truly inferior person has only three choices – passivity, illusion, or evil. As he is truly inferior any struggle can only result in nihilism instead of victory. But in the muddled modern West and the disrupted and overcrowded Middle East, this is increasingly what is happening. Nihilism is spreading, both in the guise of the American spree killer and the pawns of organizations like ISIS.
The spree killer rejects the Blue Pill of illusion. He knows that no matter how many POV videos he watches on the porn channel, it is always someone else’s dick, and that by watching it, he is practically sucking on it. He also knows that whatever efforts he makes, he cannot escape his beta essence. There is no more eloquent exposition of this than the video made by Egg Man, one of the early rumoured suspects in the Umpqua College shooting.
He may console himself with the thought that he might meet the right girl – one with conveniently low horizons to match his own. It is still possible, even in a society like our own which is increasingly dedicated to blowing smoke up the collective female arse and raising the expectations of the male to unrealizable levels. But he also knows that he might instead just become just a beta cuck, a facilitator of feminine frustration, manifested in hatred and bile, divorce and alimony – a polite term for semi-slavery imposed exclusively on the male.
The nihilistic beta, shorn of his illusions, alienated by society, becomes once again the essence of ancient barbarism.
This is an act we see played out again and again with every spree killer case. The media screeches about the evil of guns, the evil of madness, or the evil of evil itself. Drugs or computer games might get a mention, but there are commercial interests to consider. If some nefarious ideologies are uncovered on the killer’s bookshelf or hard drive, whether the White nationalism of Dylan Roof, the manosphere affectations of Elliot Rodgers, or even – possibly – the Islamism of Mercer, then these might enter the narrative. But all these ideologies are bunkum compared to the central fact of the free floating radical beta expressing his ultimate nihilism.
Just as almost all spree killers are essentially socially alienated beta males, so on the greater stage of the Middle East, ISIS is a kind of beta collective. On an individual level, there will inevitably be alpha males amongst its ranks, but man is never just an individual, but a creature that lives through his Männerbund, tribe, or race.
The core group of ISIS, the Sunni Arabs of Iraq and Syria, are the downtrodden betas of the Middle East. In Iraq they were once alphas, in Syria they were, for a while, simply passive. But, in a world flushed with the lie of democracy – the be-all-you-can-be illusion of self help books writ large on the historical landscape – they are no longer willing or able to accept this path. They have been damned by the Arab Spring.
As a group, they appear to lack the ability to take the Red Pill of positive nationalism, and their situation is not comfortable enough for the Blue Pilling so common in the West. That particular Pill requires an arduous and sometime expensive trip through the Balkans to Northern Europe. Their only choice therefore is to take the Black Pill, the pill of nihilistic egoism, pointless struggle, suicide and death, and while individual spree killers, like Chris Mercer can fall and die, how can a whole people?
The Red Pill represents a rejection of all that, and an awakening to the underlying realities. It is the pill people take just before they become race realists, neo-reactionaries, anti-democrats, or dissident righters. Far from being sugar-coated, it is laced with the bitter taste of total cynicism about all the myths that have been pimped at us 24-7. But ultimately it is not a negative pill, but a positive and even progressive one.
But there is a third pill, the Black Pill, the pill of pure egoism, nihilism, and destruction. It is a pill that leads to suicide, death, and decontextualized violence, and it is increasingly a popular resort in the present age, whether taken by the cannon fodder of ISIS, currently being bombed by the Russian air force, or the likes of Chris Harper Mercer, the latest spree shooter at the college in Umpqua Oregon, who, we are learning may well have been ‘influenced’ by Islam.
Pills
All three pills and those who take them implicitly represent inferior states conjoined with an aspiration of superiority. In this sense, they have a dialectical aspect.
As the most passive, the Blue Piller is the most inferior, but the very delusions that pacify and manipulate him, also allow him to think well of himself, to even have a sense of superiority. He may well be an upstanding member of society, and believe that the world is run in his best interests. He may even believe that his type is hegemonic, even while their ears are being filled by the music of the slaughterhouse to which history is leading him and his ilk. The epitome of the Blue Piller is the cuckservative, although liberals too are popping the same pill.
Unlike the Blue Piller, the Red Piller knows that he is not in charge. He knows the dice is loaded, the cards stacked against him. He knows the world is controlled by others with interests disparate from his own. This is his inferiority, but it is an inferiority he recognizes in order to overcome and achieve superiority. He looks the negative aspects of reality squarely in the eye and fights back. The Red Piller is ultimately a positivist and an optimist. Even if he fails in his ultimate goals, he knows that he will at least earn himself an honourable death. On the individual level there is nothing greater to be hoped for. It is only on the collective level that victory counts.
The Blue and Red Pills have a kind of complementary nature: the trajectory of the Blue Pill is from illusory superiority to actual inferiority, that of the Red Pill from false inferiority to true superiority.
The Black Pill is the least dialectical of the three. It leads from actual inferiority back to actual inferiority. It is nihilism, but nihilism made flesh calls forth absolute egoism, a sense of the self detached from wider contexts and responsibilities – it is this that makes it evil and murderous.
The inferior person can either accept context and therefore inferiority, or fight it. The Blue Piller rejects his future inferiority by retreating backwards into illusion. The Red Piller rejects his present lack of superiority by marching forward through positive consciousness and action to redress the situation. The Black Piller, however, chooses neither the palliatives of illusion nor the challenge of positive action. He stares into the abyss – passively because his actions will never be capable of changing it – and as Nietzsche so pertinently observed, the abyss stares back.
Palliatives
Earlier societies may have lacked the knowledge and data of the present age, but they were nonetheless much wiser than our own, especially in dealing with the problems now manifested in the Black Pill.
With our three pills what we are essentially dealing with are three types of people – true alphas, false alphas, and betas, the most numerous category. These types have always existed and for various reasons. The first performs creative action (true civilization), the second illusion (false civilization = decadence), and the third negativity, either as passivity (obedience) or nihilism (barbarism).
These types, as they derive from human biology, have obvious sexual aspects. Past European societies recognized the barbarous and revolutionary potential of the betas, and successful societies found ways to mitigate this, the most important being monogamous societies, in which the females were distributed more equally, although not completely so. Christian and other monogamous societies, like those of the Orient, were thus able to fix the negativity inherent in the beta male. Islam was much less successful, thus accounting for its rapid decline after its fluke rise in the seventh century.
Modern Western societies have broken this healthy pattern of the past with disastrous results, and the results would be even more disastrous if we did not now possess palliatives like drugs, TV, computer games, and porn. This is why recently there has been so much concern over slow internet for Europe's recent influx of betas.
Without a society, like the traditional Christian one that finds a way to balance the deficiencies of the beta male with “sexual welfarism” of the patriarchal society, the truly inferior person has only three choices – passivity, illusion, or evil. As he is truly inferior any struggle can only result in nihilism instead of victory. But in the muddled modern West and the disrupted and overcrowded Middle East, this is increasingly what is happening. Nihilism is spreading, both in the guise of the American spree killer and the pawns of organizations like ISIS.
Poisons
The spree killer rejects the Blue Pill of illusion. He knows that no matter how many POV videos he watches on the porn channel, it is always someone else’s dick, and that by watching it, he is practically sucking on it. He also knows that whatever efforts he makes, he cannot escape his beta essence. There is no more eloquent exposition of this than the video made by Egg Man, one of the early rumoured suspects in the Umpqua College shooting.
He may console himself with the thought that he might meet the right girl – one with conveniently low horizons to match his own. It is still possible, even in a society like our own which is increasingly dedicated to blowing smoke up the collective female arse and raising the expectations of the male to unrealizable levels. But he also knows that he might instead just become just a beta cuck, a facilitator of feminine frustration, manifested in hatred and bile, divorce and alimony – a polite term for semi-slavery imposed exclusively on the male.
The nihilistic beta, shorn of his illusions, alienated by society, becomes once again the essence of ancient barbarism.
This is an act we see played out again and again with every spree killer case. The media screeches about the evil of guns, the evil of madness, or the evil of evil itself. Drugs or computer games might get a mention, but there are commercial interests to consider. If some nefarious ideologies are uncovered on the killer’s bookshelf or hard drive, whether the White nationalism of Dylan Roof, the manosphere affectations of Elliot Rodgers, or even – possibly – the Islamism of Mercer, then these might enter the narrative. But all these ideologies are bunkum compared to the central fact of the free floating radical beta expressing his ultimate nihilism.
Just as almost all spree killers are essentially socially alienated beta males, so on the greater stage of the Middle East, ISIS is a kind of beta collective. On an individual level, there will inevitably be alpha males amongst its ranks, but man is never just an individual, but a creature that lives through his Männerbund, tribe, or race.
The core group of ISIS, the Sunni Arabs of Iraq and Syria, are the downtrodden betas of the Middle East. In Iraq they were once alphas, in Syria they were, for a while, simply passive. But, in a world flushed with the lie of democracy – the be-all-you-can-be illusion of self help books writ large on the historical landscape – they are no longer willing or able to accept this path. They have been damned by the Arab Spring.
As a group, they appear to lack the ability to take the Red Pill of positive nationalism, and their situation is not comfortable enough for the Blue Pilling so common in the West. That particular Pill requires an arduous and sometime expensive trip through the Balkans to Northern Europe. Their only choice therefore is to take the Black Pill, the pill of nihilistic egoism, pointless struggle, suicide and death, and while individual spree killers, like Chris Mercer can fall and die, how can a whole people?
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Colin Liddell is the Chief Editor of Affirmative Right and the author of Interviews & Obituaries, a collection of encounters with the dead and the famous. Support his work by buying it here. He is also featured in Arktos's new collection A Fair Hearing: The Alt-Right in the Words of Its Members and Leaders.
