Have you seen The Matrix?  You may well have:  it's a perennially popular movie.  That's why I've used its famous scene with the blue and red pill hundreds of times in my teaching:  I know almost everyone will be familiar with it.  I thought about this scene when I recently came across an interview with FaZe a group of people who, unless you're a teenager, you may not know much about.  No matter:  FaZe is an internet sensation.  Why?  Though I could offer a number of sociological theories in response, I'll instead mention a remark one of its members made in the interview.
     "Eventually we will all live in the internet, and I want to exist in that world.  That's where I see us."
     As those who have seen The Matrix know, in the blue and red pill sequence, Morpheus offers Neo a choice.  Pick the blue and you'll live a life of peace and tranquility:  nothing in your world will change.  Pick the red, and you will enter into a life of great hardship, risk, and challenge.  And discovery.

     Like most of us, I appreciate the internet greatly.  I could not do this blog without it.  However, it's not the world; it's not reality.  It's merely a skein we lay on both.  If we wish to live in a skein, sliding and easing our way through existence, we can.  If we really wish to find existence, however, we need to dig into it.  We need to rejoice in its illuminations even while we may cower at its challenge.
     On the other hand, to quote some famous words of Jesus, we will know the truth, and the truth will make us free.
     Which pill will you choose?