Red Pill Quotes

“My doctors were fundamentally servants of the status quo. Their work was predicated on the assumption that the world is bearable, and anyone who finds it otherwise should be coaxed or medicated into acceptance. But what if it isn’t? What if the reasonable reaction is endless horrified screaming?”
― Hari Kunzru, Red Pill

“I THINK IT IS POSSIBLE to track the onset of middle age exactly. It is the moment when you examine your life and instead of a field of possibility opening out, an increase in scope, you have a sense of waking from sleep or being washed up onshore, newly conscious of your surroundings. So this is where I am, you say to yourself. This is what I have become. It is when you first understand that your condition—physically, intellectually, socially, financially—is not absolutely mutable, that what has already happened will, to a great extent, determine the rest of the story. What you have done cannot be undone, and much of what you have been putting off for “later” will never get done at all. In short, your time is a finite and dwindling resource. From this moment on, whatever you are doing, whatever joy or intensity or whirl of pleasure you may experience, you will never shake the almost-imperceptible sensation that you are traveling on a gentle downward slope into darkness.”
― Hari Kunzru, Red Pill

“Now what I think of when I think of my “self” is the atrocious waste of my years.”
― Hari Kunzru, Red Pill

“Plot is the artificial reduction of life’s complexity and randomness. It is a way to give aesthetic form to reality.”
― Hari Kunzru, Red Pill

“What if the Reasonable Reaction to the World is Endless Horrified Screaming?”
― Hari Kunzru, Red Pill

“Maybe I am one of the last people in history who will feel the things I do. Maybe everything I hoped about the world, and hoped to bring about in it, is doomed to fail. Instead of learning useful things, I have filled my brain with obsolete philosophies, ideas with no more purchase or veracity than the four humors or spontaneous generations. I could say I regret it all, the useless information, but what would be the point? It’s too late now. These are the elements that make me who I am.”
― Hari Kunzru, Red Pill

“Alone, we are food for the wolves. That’s how they want us. Isolated. Prey. So we must find each other. We must remember that we do not exist alone.”
― Hari Kunzru, Red Pill

“Ο άνθρωπος μόνος του είναι κρέας για τους λύκους. Έτσι μας θέλουν. Απομονωμένους. Θηράματα. Άρα πρέπει να βρούμε ο ένας τον άλλον. Πρέπει να θυμόμαστε ότι δεν μπορούμε να υπάρξουμε μόνοι.”
― Hari Kunzru, Red Pill

“Systems, however metaphysical or abstract, are never innocent.”
― Hari Kunzru, Red Pill

“Je me souviens avoir dit quelque chose à propos de la tyrannie de l’utilité et quelque chose d’autre à propos de la pression impitoyable de l’instinct de conservation.”
― Hari Kunzru, Red Pill

“Le refus a un sens quand il est mené en masse, mais la plupart des gens préfèrent se rapprocher de quiconque possède une parcelle de pouvoir, et rien n'est plus terrifiant que de rester en première quand la foule reflue derrière vous”
― Hari Kunzru, Red Pill

“Le seul mot d'ordre politique qui m'ait un jour ému était: Ne travaillez jamais, et ma tentative d'appliquer ce principe s'était heurtée aux obstacles prévisibles. Le problème, c'est que le dehors n'existe pas, que le marginalisé n'a nulle part ou aller.”
― Hari Kunzru, Red Pill

“Everything he said sounded like a dare, an outrage that was taken back as soon as it came out of his mouth. I meant it, I didn't mean it. Sorry, not sorry.”
― Hari Kunzru, Red Pill

“You do strike me more as the secular type. A believer in progress, religion of the liberals.”
― Hari Kunzru, Red Pill

“My doctors were fundamentally servants of the status quo. Their work was predicated on the assumption that the world is bearable, and anyone who finds it otherwise should be coaxed or medicated into acceptance.”
― Hari Kunzru, Red Pill