Here, I consider blackpill in the broader sense - disarming the illusions that control out lives. In Phillip K Dick's novel, VALIS, he describes a version of reality control much more nuanced than The Matrix. The primary suggestion is that the world we perceive is a veneer - simply a surface presentation of layered unintelligible structures. This is similar to the blackpill, which reveals not only the true nature of female psychology, but of economics, politics and social games. VALIS is described as a cosmic mind that generates and interprets language. Baudrillard's notion of hyperreality can be connected to this, a world of symbols abstracted from the real, which both prescribes a 'false' reality and a systemized way of interpreting it (fixed epistemology). In VALIS, this 'fake reality' - generated by media to the Gnostic Demiurge, a 'fake God' (this is a simplification, but will suffice for this context). VALIS also unveils the true mechanism through which 'events' are produced - the process of recording history, of retroactive observation. Thus the very stories we right, the things we record, they write and define the reality we live in - we feed the Demiurge, so to speak.
I feel as if there are many parallels between PKD's VALIS and the concept of blackpill in the broader sense - does anyone else have comments on this or know of similar parallels?
Note: Sorry for the grammatical errors... my mind is somewhat foggy.
I feel as if there are many parallels between PKD's VALIS and the concept of blackpill in the broader sense - does anyone else have comments on this or know of similar parallels?
Note: Sorry for the grammatical errors... my mind is somewhat foggy.
