Take the Purple Pill
"You know that old movie? The Matrix?" the black man asked me.
"Yeah. What about it? I might have seen it when I was little."
"Really? It was kinda PG-15, wasn't it?"
"My parents were real nerds, didn't really care. I watched Alien before I learnt that Santa wasn't real."
The man raised his eyebrows. "Alrighty then. As I was saying, you remember the moment, with Morpheus: Take the red pill, leave the Matrix. Take the blue pill, remain blissfully unaware?"
"Yeah, yeah, now I remember. Neo picks it, the blue pill."
"No dummy, 'cause that would end the story right then and there. Morpheus says to him: 'You take the blue pill—the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill—you stay in Wonderland, and I show you
