The Case for Taking The Black Pill

On February 6 of this year, the PC Party of PEI will vote for their next leader and this leader will also become the next Premier of Prince Edward Island.

This has led to a rather bizarre spectacle around the election of this new leader but fortunately also presents a good opportunity to discuss why I advise taking the black pill rather than engaging in the process of selecting this new leader.

The Black Pill

Before going forward, it’s important to define what the black pill is. The black pill is a reference to the scene in The Matrix where Morpheus presents Neo with a choice. He can either take the blue pill and live a life of comfort and ignorance, or he can take the red pill and awaken to the truth of his existence and face an uncertain future.

In spite of objections to the contrary, most people in life take the blue pill and only a select few take the red pill.

In the right-wing space of the political spectrum the term red-pilled or red-pilling is used to describe someone that has broken through the consensus that dominates the current political parties. A red-pilled individual is supposed to be more aware of the true nature of politics, the media and the decay of institutions. A red-pilled individual is supposed to have broken free of the “prison for your mind” that is the Matrix of our world.

I am unsure of the origins of the black pill in a political context, but as it stands to be black-pilled means to accept how thoroughly corrupt various institutions are and accept that there is no reforming them. Any attempt to take over these institutions is futile and there will be no voting ourselves out of the collapse that our society faces.

Now that we have this context in mind let’s examine the PEI situation.

The Election for PEI’s Next Premier

The two candidates for the next Premier of PEI are Rob Lantz and Mark Ledwell.

The issues with Lantz are numerous and well known to everyone by now, safe to say that a vote for Lantz is a vote for the status quo. Considering how bad the rest of the leaders for the other parties are I can see why some people are in favor of the status quo.

I personally had no idea who Ledwell was before this election, so I quickly went to his website to learn his policies and vision for the Island. Unfortunately, his website was more of a landing page with no significant details and it remained like this for the majority of the time since he announced his candidacy.  

As of today, his website is more filled out, but it’s all puff and no substance. There are no concrete policy proposals and his main pitch as to why PC members should elect him is because of the numerous endorsements he has received.

Pretty sad state of affairs, but it only gets worse from here.

Kevin Arsenault is an independent writer in PEI who seems to have a talent for research. He has done some research on Ledwell and his findings do not paint a flattering picture of the man. Readers can come to their own conclusions of course, but I want to focus on Arsenault’s claims in Part One of the article where he talks about the culture of supporting a candidate unconditionally that is so profuse on the Island. Arsenault describes the electorate’s approach to voting as “increasingly emotional, passionate, and, quite frankly, irrational”.

Despite Ledwell quite possibly being the Bernie Madoff of the Maritimes, the comments Arsenault has received in response to his research prove that his assessment is correct; to put it simply, during elections, people lose their minds and cannot be reasoned with.

Even after people have learned of Arsenault’s research, they continue to push for Ledwell to be the next Premier.  

Elections and The Black Pill

Arsenault’s belief is that “situational ethics” best describes the electorate’s attitude in PEI, which is described as the temporary rejection of universal principles in favor of an ends justify the means approach.

While this is true, the issue is a little deeper than that.

What I think is happening is that the radical section of society has figured out that civilization is collapsing, in one sense every election is the most import election of our lifetime because the further into the abyss our society sinks, the harder it becomes to pull out from it.

This is why sensible people throw their full support behind candidates and refuse to reason, in their minds either their candidate wins or all is lost: permanently. Having such beliefs will surely drive most people insane.

This is where the black pill comes in.

The be black-pilled is to refuse the premise that the next election is the most important election of our lifetime. The course is locked in; there is no pulling back now.

Most critiques of “blackpilling” center around the belief that it’s a framework based on nihilism and defeatism, that it leads to people locking themselves in their mom’s basement refusing to do anything.

This is not the truth, to be black-pilled is to accept that since the dawn of history societies have risen and fallen, all of them. Although the West has achieved more for mankind than any other civilization before it, we are not immune from this general trend. We are presently in the disintegrative phase and it will be many more decades before a new era of prosperity is set to commence. Lord of The Rings has a nice reference to this.

If anything, I view it as a framework for hope; that no matter how bad things get, our society has been through this before and will eventually come out of it. Those that fret over elections and argue over which crook or useful idiot it’s better to vote for this go around are the ones caught in a defeatist mindset where they think that if their candidate does not win it will bring “an end of history” although with a negative outcome.

So if our elections are largely meaningless, save yourself the stress of worrying over them and focus more on doing something useful for yourself, your family and your community.