Five stages of red pill unplugging
Taking the red pill is a mental process. It is not as quick as swallowing a physical pill.
The truth comes to you in stages. You notice inconsistencies around you in your society, and as you reflect upon them the next ones appear to only confirm the previous ones. This cycle spurs you on like a trail of breadcrumbs which takes you further and further away from mainstream thinking. And through your own revelations and the thoughts of other red pill men, your new worldview slowly comes together.
Depending on the individual opinion, there are a varying number of stages when it comes to red pill rage. I will use the most general version which resembles the ‘five stages of grief’ as established by Psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler Ross’.
- Denial
Your most human reaction to events and circumstances which challenges your current perception of the world, and thus your sense of security, is to reject the existence of the entire situation.
As a social creature, your most likely reaction will be to seek reaffirmation from your close surroundings. Perhaps you would try to reason your way back to the blue pill.
“The government would never allow this.”
“If this was wrong, people would have demanded that it be corrected a long time ago.”
“She looks so sweet and beautiful. She would never act like that.”
“I just haven’t found my special someone yet.”
“My financial advisor at the bank would not advise me to invest against my personal interest.”
”The Communications Officer says that the company did not pollute the water. If it’s in the paper, he must be telling the truth.”
- Anger
If you conquer your urge to flight and acknowledge the validity of a new truth, the second most natural reaction will be anger and an urge to fight the experienced injustice of your new situation.
To engage the fight you must establish an enemy which will be subject to your anger.
The enemy would likely be those who you perceive to have power over you in your red pill world view and those who you believe seek to exploit you.
- Politicians
- Women
- Banks
- corporations
- Bargaining
You learn about methods and strategies to benefit from the rigged game. If you go MGTOW but still want to have sex with women, you might learn the methods of PUAs. If you see the financial environment as rigged and estimate investing opportunities as overvalued, you might decide to wait for a correction. If you understand the game of politics, you might start your own political blog or write your local politician.
“This PUA stuff is actually working on getting me dates.”
“I’m hedging my investments until the stock bubble has decreased by at least forty percent.”
“I wrote our representative at the parliament that they must reduce government spending.”
“The company has developed a corporate social responsibility strategy, so It cannot be all bad.”
- Depression
You have resigned to a state of meaninglessness. The game is rigged and there is nothing you can do about it. Dating women has no purpose and banks and politicians will always make you pay for their own mistakes, one way or the other.
“There is no point in doing anything. We are all living on lies and few people care to realize it.”
- Acceptance
You see reality for what it is and you accept your own responsibility for handling reality in a constructive or destructive manner.
“We are all animals caught in a battle between our ideals and our natural impulses.”
During this process you are bound to experience some of the stages the mind goes through in adapting to a new paradigm. The order in which you experience these stages may differ from the experience of others.
What is red pill rage?
In short, red pill rage is the anger which strikes the person who realizes that his world works opposite of the way, in which he has been taught to think throughout his life.
Red pill rage is probably most often associated with MGTOW and men waking up from the conventional belief system adhering to relationship norms and demands from women and society.
However, red pill knowledge – and the rage which follows – is not necessarily confined to one particular area. There are several areas which can be subject to red pill revelations and future critical awareness. Such areas can be:
- Society
- Women
- The financial system
- Corporations
Red pill rage towards society
Our civilization overall is at a turning point. The planet faces climate change, there is a global wealth transfer taking place, geopolitical turmoil is causing migration which is affecting demographics in major parts of the world. In the developed countries automation is taking over jobs in multiple areas. As a result we will witness increasing civil unrest due to multiculturalism, unemployment and lacking natural resources.
More and more people are waking up to the fact that our society is governed and run on ideological assumptions which never had much merit to begin with, and the underpinnings of our social, environmental, financial and political systems are unravelling.
For the individual lacking an ever advancing degree of social and professional skills, facing the changes in a society becoming increasingly unstable and unsafe could result in a powerless and stressful state of unemployment and facing dwindling financial and social resources.
Red pill rage towards women
Few men spend the time necessary to discover the reality of female nature and the social dynamics between men and women which in many ways act directly opposite of the cultural ideals embedded in western romanticism.
It is easier to believe the message of romantic movies and society telling you to be a gentleman than to stop and think about the overall context in which you are expected to play a specific role.
If a man truly pursues understanding women and female nature he will generate a completely different view on women, on men and society as a whole. In many cases it will cause the man to become angry of the role he has been given in a society which has no real appreciation of his sacrifice while elevating and celebrating women and children.
Red pill rage towards the financial system
The crisis of 2008 was proof that neither authorities nor banks understood the scope or the consequences of the relation between the Federal Reserve lowering interest rates, banks encouraged to creating unsound financial instruments which were in the end approved by credit rating agencies.
The crisis left a lot of homeowners technically insolvent and angry at the government for bailing out the banks instead of helping them in their financial distress.
The crisis should have shown ordinary citizens that they cannot automatically trust their politicians and institutions of authority. The human incentive to pursue more profit and self-interest is evident in both the private sector and the public sector. People must educate themselves and learn how the system works.
Red pill rage towards corporations
I remember the first time I really took notice of a company, which was publically dragged through a legal process with multiple trials for conspiracy, insider trading and fraud.
Following the dot-com bubble in the year 2000, this company was exposed to volatility due to its own online trading platform and failed investments in high-speed broadband telecom networks. The company was hiding its crumbling financial situation through mark-to-market accounting.
Enron, which was the name of the company, declared bankruptcy in December 2nd 2001, with a stock value closing at 0.26 dollars compared to 39.95 dollars a share on August 14th earlier that year. As a consequence the company left thousands of employees with worthless stocks
Due to cases like that of Enron, many people already seem to have a grudge against corporations, due to some belief that corporations are behaving badly when they could just play nice.
Yet there is often a gap between a corporation’s legal obligation to generate yield to its investors and the consideration to the environment, to people and at times basic human rights.
The truth is that corporations have a legal obligation to increase profit. The corporate finances are for employees and investors, not to spend on externalities such as clean drinking water.
Instead the notion of free markets is entrusted to steer corporations in the right direction and provide society and its citizens with the things which are both wanted and needed. The only issue with the free market is the human incentive to squeeze just a little more profit out of every work process, by lowering wages, outsourcing jobs, minimizing measures to secure health and sustainability of employees and the environment
For a corporation to exploit its social and natural environment, it takes a certain level of abstraction. The larger the size of the corporation and the amount of levels of management, the more abstract the corporate relationship becomes to the surrounding world. This moves the sense of corporate responsibility further away: Out of sight, out of mind, so to speak.
Society, women, the financial system and corporations: these were some of the areas in which you may be subject to a red pill awakening. As a whole you might find that they make an alternate reality to the general world view of the public.
Red Pill Anger Phase
When red pill rage is mentioned it is generally done so in a negative context. Some of the most typical opinions sound more or less like this:
- “Men are just whining”
- “Men are exercising hate speech towards women”
- “Men are displaying toxic masculinity”
It seems socially unacceptable for men to experience the natural reaction to the feeling of being deceived. However, it is for many outsiders the automatic response to chastise such an undesired reaction. It creates the ‘us’ and ‘them’, which dehumanizes the frustrated party and allows the surroundings to ignore the responsibility it would otherwise have for being empathetic and taking an interest into the troubling issues of the other party. Instead of simplifying by saying ‘they are just angry men’.
Of course it is essential to move on from the stage of rage, yet the stage itself is legitimate. Even feminists displayed their ‘red pill rage’ in the seventies as they marched through the streets with signs and shouting feminist catchphrases. Now they are discrediting men for exercising that same right? It should be easy to see that men are not in the wrong, despite the, at times, harsh language.
For several reasons it might be hard to control your red pill rage in the beginning.
- Your image of the world has changed – things were not the way you had been told
- Your perception of your own role has changed
- You realize that you cannot automatically trust the opinion of society or even the people closest to you
- You realize that few people – if any – know or care about what is in your own personal interest as a man
- You are forced to keep your opinions to yourself because of prejudice and hypocrisy from your surroundings
With your red pill rage in mind, you should pay attention to the way you think and the words you choose to describe your situation and your view on people around you.
The positive aspects of red pill rage
Red pill rage also has positive aspects, which I believe deserves to be mentioned.
- Anger is proof of personal boundaries. – if you did not believe in yourself, you would regress and not protest
- Anger is proof of a personal sense of justice
- Anger is proof of opinion in contrast to indifference – it shows that you care
- Anger gives you energy and direction to act and move in another direction
- When you act and move, you change your situation
- When you change your situation, you transform yourself
Red pill rage – when does it go away?
The answer to that question depends on another question: How do you choose to relate to your red pill situation? The truth is that nothing around you in reality has changed. The world has always functioned in the way that you have just recently realized. You were the one living in an illusion. You can choose to be mad at yourself and the world around you for supporting this lie. Still, it would perhaps be more constructive to work from the universal rule that people are flawed and make mistakes despite their good intentions.
Perhaps you may find comfort knowing that most people who support the false narrative and taught it to you
- Did not know any better
- Adopted their world narrative in their childhood and teenage years
- Did not question their world narrative once it was established in childhood and youth.
- Are too afraid to seek the truth because it lies outside of the way of thinking that makes life feel secure.
In reality the red pill rage does not simply vanish. It merely transforms into either acceptance or depression.
Red pill sadness (depression)
When the red pill rage subsides, it may take the form of depression with thoughts like “Politicians are inept or corrupt” or “Corporations are empty shells void of values and purpose other than generating more profit every quarter”. Life and most things in it could also lose meaning as one of the strongest drivers in your life – finding someone to love you and trust to love you back suddenly seems unlikely, or downright impossible, as you learn about female nature.
Since depression is a regressed and apathetic state, I would prefer the state of red pill rage any time – as long as I was moving towards a state of acceptance. As I said before there is energy in rage to move forward but very little energy to be found in a depression. This makes a depressed red pill person more dependent on outside help to move forward compared to an enraged person.
How to channel your red pill rage
If you experience red pill rage, you should consider using the energy to transcend into a more balanced and positive state – preferably before falling into a depression.
Anger is a physiological emotion which makes you ready to face conflict.
First of all, allow yourself to experience the anger and do not accept shaming from other people: remember the positive aspects of red pill rage, which indicates strong and assertive sides of your personality.
Second, do not release your rage in front of other people if you are unable to control your anger. There is a risk of a discussion escalating out of your control.
Third, seize the opportunity to rethink your life in general. Make a plan to find out in which direction you want to go. Where a depression consumes your energy without returning anything, you can channel your rage into efforts which in turn generate even more energy and value in your personal life:
- Exercise
- Honing your professional skills through self-study or school
- Friendships
- Hobbies
Exercise
With exercise you apply yourself to physical development. You enhance your cardio and your strength. The ability to push yourself is also transferrable to your professional life. A healthy body is a necessary means to support a healthy mind
Honing your professional skills
The ways in which you make money are the ways in which you create value for other people in this world. You should continuously be bettering yourself in those areas to stay relevant.
Friendships
In modern society the closest personal network for many people does not consist of family members, but friends. Despite ads in our consumer society trying to convince us that we can buy our way to perfection and happiness, social relations to our friends in everyday life remain the most valuable thing.
Friendships help you reduce stress and feelings of loneliness and you can seek advice from their experience in dealing with hardship in your own life.
Of course, if your friends are blue pill, you might not be able to talk to them about what is bothering you, and if you do, they might not be that interested in your red pill views. Still, you should not simply reject the presence and good intentions of friends simply because they come from a blue pill point of view.
Find an online community with likeminded people – or create one yourself. There are numerous channels on YouTube dedicated to red pill topics and many of these have websites and other media outlets associated with them.
Hobbies.
They say that every man needs a hobby. It is in men’s nature to take an interest in the world around them and act by delving into what they are passionate about. Through vision and creativity men are able to experiment on their own with innocuous projects in their spare time or create groundbreaking inventions in their professions to help mankind.
By pursuing a hobby, you exercise and strengthen what is at the core of masculinity, which is self-realization and competence.
During this whole process it can be a good idea to double check your decisions frequently. Actions taken in anger may at times be very subjective and less rational. You want to keep your long-term interests in sight at all times.
One way of doing this is to ask a friend for his or her outside perspective on your situation and this person can give a probably more objective view of
The most important thing is to keep going and look for elements which can create direction in your life