A painful, every day reminder that lunatics remain in charge

A preposterous movie trope still holds currency, more than two decades later

I am not sure if it is the age we live in or the circles I travel in—books, podcasts, and articles, etc.—but the proliferation of conversations about what of these different colored “pills” one must take to get through one’s life’s journey…well, it is way too much.

As a matter of speech these days, folks talk about taking either the “red pill” or the “bl…