Red Pill Revolution (eBook)

What if you discovered the world you have been born into has been precisely designed in order to keep you unhappy, stressed, and struggling, all for the benefit of a tiny minority of others?

Have you noticed that you can never quite seem to get there? The promise of comfort, security, and peace is always just around the next corner… Government you can trust. Corporations that play fair. Clean food. Healthcare. Being cared for in your old age. A world that feels like it’s getting better for each generation.

It’s never here, but it’s always just around the next corner. Just…

Is this the way you know — in your heart — that human beings are meant to live? If your answer is “no”, we wrote this book for you.

The first goal of The Red Pill Revolution is to invite you to take a fresh look at the world you live in and to question how well that world works for you.

The authors will also offer some alternative viewpoints for you to consider and a range of practical steps that you may choose to take that could radically transform your experience of life.

It is absolutely not our intention to tell you what to think. Quite the opposite, in fact. You have been told what to think your whole life. Our intention is to help you break out of that conditioning so that you can make free choices as a powerful, responsible, sovereign human being.

We simply and humbly wish to offer some ideas, which may be new to you. If it feels right to you, try these ideas on for size. If they work for you, keep them. If they do not work for you, discard them. Either way, as long as you are making clear choices in your own best interests, we believe the book will have succeeded in its purpose.

We intend this book to be inspiring and uplifting. Yes, the picture we initially paint of the experience of modern life may seem bleak and depressing. We do not apologize for that. But it is our hope that, as a consequence, the alternative vision we offer will appear equally positive and hopeful.

It also aims to be a practical guide, helping you make truly free choices that will lead to a tangible improvement in your everyday experience. For that reason, we will avoid straying too far into speculation about who really runs the world or what their motives might be. What we ultimately care about is the freedom and happiness of you, the reader.

We should offer a warning at this point. If you proceed to read The Red Pill Revolution, you may discover things that are uncomfortable and challenging - things that you may not be able to unlearn!

Now comes your first choice: if your present experience of life is perfectly rewarding and leaves you deeply satisfied, there is little point in reading on. We suggest you stop now and pass the book to someone else.

However, you may be one of those who experience a sense of wrongness, a deep conviction that somehow life ought to be better than this. If that is the case, you are in the right place, read on.

The great illusion

It has to be said that, for many people, this is indeed the time in history with the most potential for fulfilment and happiness. We have the ability to travel almost anywhere, we have access to more enriching experiences than ever before, we have the most incredible technology. It is quite feasible today to live a higher quality of life than even kings and queens enjoyed just a few generations ago.

So, with all this progress, why are we not all permanently happy and fulfilled? Why are we working harder than previous generations? Why do we keep getting sicker than previous generations? Why are there epidemics of obesity, ADHD, autism…? Why is there so much poverty, even in the richest countries?

In a world where just eight men have as much wealth as the poorest fifty percent of the human population, the super-rich could eradicate all these problems with the stroke of a pen. Clearly, they do not believe it would be in their interests to do so. Why?

There is a common answer, and it must be that it is all deliberate. Think about that for a minute. United, we could transform the world and everyone’s experience of daily life. The fact that we do not can only mean one thing: we are not united! In today’s world, there is clearly an “us” and a “them”.

You do not have to delve deep to see the truth of this for yourself. You only need to step back for a moment to notice that, despite our incredible sophistication, our health is actually declining, people are dying unnecessarily, hatred and conflict never end, and our living environment is being polluted.

We have the power to turn all these things around, yet we don’t. Why not? The only reason must be because it is not in the interests of the people who really run things to do so.

Consider that the world you live in may not be set up to work in your best interests, but rather only to benefit a tiny minority of very rich and very powerful people.

In fact, we will show how every area of daily modern life, for all its promise of luxury and opportunity, has in reality been carefully arranged to keep you in a situation similar to slavery: working for the benefit of others from the day you are born to the day you die.

Of course, that is not how life appears! If it did, surely there would be an outcry. Everyone would rebel, and that would ruin things for the slave owners.

Instead, we all grew up believing that, while today may be a struggle, life is always full of possibility. We can be anything we want to be. Success is there for the taking, and when we achieve it, the stress and struggle will be gone, and we will finally be happy.

But that is all an illusion. The reality is that you are not meant to be happy and fulfilled. You are meant to live in a state of near-constant stress, unable to take care of yourself and constantly dependent on others to supply even your most basic needs.

In the chapters that follow we will explain why you are depressed by design. We’ll show how the illusion works, and we will also explore the ways that you can simply step away and live a life that is true to the real You.

First, we must look at how our present situation came to pass, so that we can better understand why things are the way they are.

How we came to be owned

For the vast majority of our history all humans were free folk. We built our own homes, made our own clothes, hunted our own food, foraged, raised our children, cooked, brewed, ate and drank, taught and learned, sang songs, told stories, and were basically healthy and happy. We walked free upon the Earth.

Also, until just a few thousand years ago, no human being was wealthy, and everyone had pretty much everything we needed: food, water, shelter, clothes, tools, weapons, medicines, and ceremonial or decorative items.

Let that sink in. Long before the modern age, everyone already had everything we needed.

Because we hunted and gathered and lived hand-to-mouth, it made no sense for any individual to do more work than was necessary, or to possess more than they could personally use. Each of us would only typically need to be active for a few hours per day to meet all our needs, just as todays remaining hunter-gatherer tribes still do now.

That all began to change when tribes started to enclose and own land in order to cultivate crops and raise animals. When we started farming, suddenly it became possible to take from “your” land more of something than you could personally use. Grain, in particular, might be seen as the first source of wealth because it could be stored for many months.

The invention of wealth meant that those who had more than they needed now had an incentive to hoard and protect their assets. People could use their greater wealth to employ others to help keep them and their riches safe, and even to create armies to steal others’ wealth.

As the stakes grew higher, the rich built bigger barns and forts and castles so they could maintain control over more land, leading to the establishment of hierarchical societies and empires.

What also happened is that the rich came to mistake the power that wealth gave them for virtue.

Wealth now gave them status.

It made them higher or better than others.

Of course, once wealth becomes the source of your status in the world, you must ensure you pass that status on to your offspring. So it becomes necessary to gather ever-increasing amounts of resources, far beyond what anyone could use in their lifetime, in the attempt to secure your family’s status through the generations.

Fast forward to medieval Europe. Although much of the good land was owned by aristocrats who demanded rent, there was plenty of common land and most peasants (which simply means “country dwellers”) were still free folk, able to move around and work where and when they chose. In fact, we know that in the Middle Ages the typical laborer worked fewer than 30 hours per week — still less than workers do today.

When the Industrial Revolution started in Britain in the 18th Century, the new mills and factories required a great deal of manual labor. But this presented a problem because most of the people still lived on the land and worked only when they needed to. The owners of capital...