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Take the White Pill!

A message from Michael Malice by way of Dara Macdonald.

The White Pill is an alternative to the Blue Pill, the Red Pill and the Black Pill.

Michael Malice traced the rise of the Soviet Union and its outposts in every country in the world, from the bloody revolution through the catalogue of horrors, the secret police, the torture chambers, the show trials, the labor camps and the mass starvation. There were always people in the West prepared to justify the bloodshed in defence of the evil empire. But then it fell (or did we speak too soon?) Still, for Malice and Macdonald the fall is a message that the good must never give up hope. This is the White Pill.

The Red Pill opens our eyes to some harsh facts of reality, the Blue Pill is a narcotic that enables us to ignore the facts and the Black Pill prompts apathy and resignation in the belief that nothing can be done about it.

The rise and fall of the Soviet Union is proof that the progressive version of history (as popularised today by Steven Pinker and Francis Fukuyama) that things are always getting better is plain wrong, but so are the nihilists that say that things will only get worse. 

In other words, the White Pill view is the most factual as it says that things can get both dramatically worse AND drastically better. 

What is most important is that WE don’t believe that everything is doomed, if we do, then the downward trajectory will become a self-fulfilling prophecy. If we continue to take the Black Pill and get our negative expectations confirmed by the media we consume we will demoralise ourselves out of taking action

Take a White Pill daily, or even three times a day, with or without your favourite beverage, and get on to live, love and leave a legacy by doing whatever can be done. Someone whose name eludes me once said that we can all aspire to make the world a little bit better every day in our own way, be it ever so humble. 

Someone else put a citation from Edmud Burke in his email signature “Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.”

Rafe Champion

6 responses to “Take the White Pill!”

  1. Dragnet Avatar
    Dragnet

    An excellent piece to read first thing in the morning !

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  2. Ceres Avatar
    Ceres

    Best for conservatives, common sense, rational people to avoid MSM with its constant flow of demoralising leftie regurgitations. The white pill is easier to digest then.
    Isn’t it about time that conservatives had a “win”? Some positive reinforcement – like hopefully “the Voice” failing. The last few years have been full of defeats.
    I find little in Australia to give much hope but the likes of Ron de Santis and Florida, do.
    As they say, the tide goes out and the tide comes in.

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  3. Boambee John Avatar
    Boambee John

    To quote Aragorn to the lad just given a sword at Helm’s Deep, “There is always hope”.

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  4. duncanm Avatar
    duncanm

    Or to quote another movie, Secondhand lions

    Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the most.
    That people are basically good; that honor, courage, and virtue mean everything; that power and money, money and power mean nothing; that good always triumphs over evil; and I want you to remember this, that love… true love never dies.
    You remember that, boy. You remember that. Doesn’t matter if it’s true or not. You see, a man should believe in those things, because those are the things worth believing in.

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  5. Kneel Avatar
    Kneel

    To quote another movie, Starman:
    “Shall I tell you what I like about you [humanity] most?
    You are at your best when things are worst…”

    And I don’t know who to attribute it to but also:
    “Nothing worth doing is ever easy.”

    Those who survived some of histories greatest tragedies did so because they had hope, they had a dream – to see their wife and child again, to give their people freedom and so on. Those who lost hope perished.

    Stitch it all together: It won’t be easy, and things may get worse before they get better, but if you hold on to your hopes and dreams, you can survive and you can bend reality to your will.

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  6. Megan Avatar
    Megan

    All there in A Man’s Search For Meaning. Without hope, we are doomed.

    Thanks for the much appreciated inspiration on this gray day!

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