When I wrote the blue and red pill theoretical framework the goal was to identify the mutual exclusivity of the two frameworks. I deliberately left out the purple pill, as it requires its own essay due to the fact that it appears to contradict the mutual exclusivity that was outlined in the other essay. To define the purple pill, it is a position that seeks to enable a man to have the blue pill fantasy, while remaining red pill. In essence leveraging his red pill knowledge in order to experience the blue pill fantasy.

In a sense, once a man learns red pill knowledge, it is impossible to return to the Matrix without significant dissonance, unlike Cypher, there is simply no way to have your mind wiped clean of all aspects of the red pill. It may be suppressed for a time, or channeled through a defense mechanism or two, but the idealism that is required for a true blue pill fantasy is gone and what remains is merely a hollow shell.

Central to the blue pill fantasy is the idea of there being a "one", a perfect partner who fulfills your every need. Leaving out the part where perfection is a human conception that has no place in reality, and if it did would at best exist in a moment by moment basis, there is no such thing as a perfect partner. Someone may be a better fit for you than another, in transient moments it may feel as they are perfect but this is an illusion. A man cannot at the same time accept AWALT and view his partner in the manner required for the blue pill.

From my research on the topic, the reasoning behind a purple pill perspective is to attempt a circumnavigation of the principles that are core to the red pill, such s solipsism, hypergamy and "all women are like that". It is also based in an illusion of control, through which if the husband is red pill enough, he can alter her biological firmware, through constant vigilance. Throughout history, female nature was socially controlled through various means, religion, social shaming and jurisprudence are some of them. For instance, British divorce law from pre-1900 where the husband would automatically gain custody over the children in the event of divorce played on a female being attached to her children to reduce branch swinging, and to police her behavior.

Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter", demonstrates how social shaming and shunning could be utilized to reduce the tendency for hypergamy, through it having social and financial consequences. The severe biblical punishments for adultery served to further reduce the inherent tendencies of the human female.

The purple pill perspective is therefore, that a man standing alone as long as he is alpha and red pill aware enough can be different from the myriad of other men who were unable to accomplish what an entire society creates incentives against. To make this essay comparable with the other essay, I will go through the purple pill perspective on each point from it.

Be Your Best Self So You Can Just Be Yourself

The Red Pill position is that all men should strive to be their best selves and the blue pill position that men should just be themselves. As with most of these positions, the purple pill positions itself somewhere between these two points, usually with the position that a man should strive to make himself as alpha as possible, in order to facilitate an aspect of being able to be himself. In essence a man with a sexual market value that is high enough, can indulge in some blue pill behaviors without the risk of triggering his partners hypergamic tendencies.

On the topic of "Just be yourself" it is in embryo merely a carte blanche to engage in behavior that feels good in the moment. This is no different than "it's fits my macros" when it comes to dieting or "I did legs last week, better use leg day for more upper body work this week" for weight lifting.

Just be yourself is in many ways also a filtering strategy for women, it makes it easier for them to separate alpha fucks from beta bucks, as an alpha just being himself is being an alpha, and the same for a beta. While long-term relationships inevitably means that an alpha becomes more beta, the purple pill approach is to balance alpha characteristics with being his natural self, thus striking a balance that gives the women the "best of both worlds", doting beta and dread game dropping alpha. In this sense, the concept is similar to the female fantasy of taming the alpha.

This is reminiscent of the old school pick up artists, who rather than seek to become high value men, would become really good at appearing as high value men. With somewhat disastrous results. It will also create issues as your frame will be non-congruent, as it requires a degree of self-control and conscious presence that is non-sustainable over a long period of time.

Abundance mindset and outcome independence is based on the ability to walk away, which again is based in sexual abundance and opportunity, by giving one person sexual monopoly over you, under pain of divorce court this is eradicated. Thus, one is in a position where the woman holds all the cards, from a legal and social perspective, and one must overcome this purely from one's own strong frame.

Men and Women are Different and Once You Know, You Can Handle That

This mirrors the red pill to quite a large degree, while the blue pill fantasy is fixed on the egalitarian blank slate proposition, accepting that men and women are different is one of the cardinal red pill principles. However, the assumption that this gives control is flawed. One can liken this to tight-rope walking over a chasm, you can control your own body and thoughts, but you cannot control if nature decides that a gust of wind should throw you to your death.

The position reminds me of the tragedy of Long Term Capital Management, a hedge fund with multiple Nobel prize winning academic quantitative economists that failed miserably because of issues pointed out by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his books "The Black Swan" and "Fooled by Randomness" preceding the 2008 financial crisis, namely that inestimable events happen far more frequently than models of reality would estimate.

The fact that one knows which variables exist, does not mean that one can control or predict their effects or their inter-dependencies. Being red pill aware, and thus knowing of hypergamy, solipsism and so on, does not translate into control over their effects, merely a perception of such control. Perhaps it may serve to reduce the risk of failure somewhat, but considering that it does not reduce the impact of the risk, merely the probability, it still remains significant.

In fact, the perception of control and risk management may in and of itself lead to higher risk exposure as a result of underestimating the risk of the event in question. You have little control over what happens the day your submissive, traditional, red pill wife gets a new alpha boss, or when she gets inspired watching "Eat, Pray, Love" and "Wild" with her girlfriends.

A Relationship Not Easy But Can Be Managed

The former section outlines the idea that awareness of troubled waters assists in navigating them. The idea that relationships are not easy come from the fact that every relationship will have issues, and once one moves beyond the "just having fun together" stage of those issues multiply rapidly. One of the most fundamental management quotes is "What gets measured gets managed" by management guru Peter Drucker.

For instance, by creating a rule that you only send her one text for each three she sends you, only call her once for every 2 times she calls you and so on, this helps you manage your own issues with contact. Many men have a tendency to over-contact women they are interested in, thus creating a metric for it makes it manageable.

However, creating such metrics for something as complex as a relationship, draws attention away from directly investing in maintaining and building your sexual market value. In my upcoming book on Gendernomics I speak on altered time investment patterns within a relationship, where the female expects the man to alter his investment structure from favoring his sexual market value to favoring their relationship. However, these are not mutually exclusive, because a man who lets go of his sexual market value, will inevitably be discarded for another male. The investment made in management in this case, is an investment in the relationship, which the female will resent as it results in her being held accountable, and will draw away from investments in the man's sexual market value.

In addition, as the man is directing his attention towards the female to ensure that her metrics are within the acceptable range, he may fall into the trap of becoming reactive, rather than pro-active. There is an option to act pro-actively, however it would require a constant state of calibration to balance the alpha frame with beta behaviors.

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