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Scott Greer’s recently published book, Whitepill: The Online Right and the Making of Trump’s America (Passage Press), offers these definitions: In internet parlance, a “white pill” (often condensed to whitepill) refers to an optimistic outlook or a development that restores a sense of possibility. It’s a variant of the more famous “red pill,” taken from the film The Matrix, which refers to waking up to the real problems of the world. In some cases, that awakening leads to the “black pill,” a pessimistic conclusion that the future is closed off from improvement and that serious change is impossible. (emphasis added)

https://revolver.news/2026/09/book-review-scott-greer-whitepill-online-right-trumps-america/ BOOK REVIEW: We took the red pill, but Scott Greer says there’s one more pill left to swallow… September 16, 2026 (3 days ago)     Share Share Share Share Share Tweet Share Share Flip It   Subscribe to the ad-free edition Contribute Sign up for the email list Guest Post by Eòin Tierney Almost everyone is familiar with the idea of the red pill and the blue pill from the movie The Matrix . The red pill, offered to the character Neo, who has already been nagged by doubt about things, is the pill that will wake him up to reality, to the actual character of the Matrix—“the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth”—and the blue pill will enable him to continue living in false delusions about the world, believing “whatever you want to believe.” In internet lingo, starting in the mid-2000s or so, taking the red pill came to mean rejecting mainstream n...
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