Blog # 9
                                                  Red Pill or Blue Pill: Is Ignorance Bliss?


              In the article " Red Pill or Blue Pill : Is ignorance Bliss " the author is showing the similarity between the movie "The Matrix" and "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". Both of the protagonists are experiencing similar situations in life, also they are having the opportunity to get to know a new world from someone else's point of view. Neo the protagonist of the "The Matrix" and Alice the protagonist of "Alice's Adventure in Wonderland" got confused about the changes and both started questioning if this was real or was just their imagination. Both of these movies were based on the book "The Allegory of the Cave" by Socrates that mentions the liberation from the believes that we are used to.
            After they experience the new world it is hard to go back to the place they lived before and communicate to people that the world is a simple simulation of reality. When people live in their worlds for so long the change can be painful and also some people can refuse doing it.In the movie " The Matrix" the author uses a simbolic way to choose our change where the blue pill means that we continue in our regular lives and a red pill that means a complete change for a new world that nobody told us before. Likewise, in the movie "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"the simbol for the change is a drink and a cake that a Caterpillar offers to her. The author shows in both movies the importance to take risks in life and grow as a person and open our minds to new things.
               Sometimes changes can cause a weird feeling because we can get lost trying to figure out who we really are. Also depending on the change we would need a complete reeducation of habits and concepts about life or even phisical skills like we see in the movie.In addition starting over in a new world is a big challenge because we have to go through some new situations that can make us question if we made the right choice.
                 I believe that everybody should take the red pill to have an opportunity to discover a new world. I am from Brasil and after 28 years living a convenient life with things that I knew for example: the language, places to go,culture, expressions, friends, family,how should I behave to be accepted and all these things that can bring us to a comfort zone I realize that I was tired. I had a nice job, my own apartment,  new car and all that make me starting questioning "that is it?" and i decided to come to New York and live with a friend of mine.
                I arrived in this country in 2001 and I didn't know how to say " how are you?" or " how much is that?", in other hand, I was so happy that I took the risk and I felt so proud of my self. Some days when I was still living in Brazil I use to think that moving to New York was impossible and a crazy decision. Later I realized that it could be nice to start over in a new place even with all the difficulties. Coming here I felt like a newborn, illiterate and ignorant, but I didn'tlet this be a barrier that could change my mind making me go back to Brazil. I had to literally reeducate myself and I can tell you that is not easy and sometimes can be frustranting.
               In Conclusion I truly believe that there is always a new world to discover and it is up to us to take the chance.Also based on the famous account given by Socrates and on both movies that I mention before and including my own experience, changes are never going to be for the worse because they can always add knowledge, it can be good or bad, but it can make you a better person.