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Podcast: The Bunker – News without the nonsense
Episode: Red Pills and Chills – Is The Matrix the most dangerous movie of modern times?
Description: • Get 20% off annual Patreon support for The Bunker in our Black Friday sale. The perfect gift to ask for!It’s known for leather trenchcoats, shades and cool fight sequences in “bullet time”. But The Matrix’s concept of “taking the Red Pill” – rejecting consensus reality and all who believe in it – has spread to become a malignant force in politics, providing a rationale for conspiracy theorists, misogynists, antisemites and fascists. How did a sci-fi blockbuster do so much damage?Derek Robertson, who writes on the politics/pop culture intersection for Politico, talks to Andrew Harrison about the R...