Others have made similar journeys. Stefan Molyneux used to be one of leading rational atheists on the internet. When I saw him last year in St Louis, he gave what could have easily passed for a Sunday sermon (and superior to any Sunday sermon that I can recall growing up). Owen Benjamin has also embraced Christianity, but on his own terms. To him, accepting Christ means submitting to a higher power, and embracing logos in all aspects of life. But, he is even more excited about his lifestyle changes, transitioning from a California comedian & actor to a rural homesteader. He takes it as a given that the world is fallen and corrupt, and focuses his time and energy on creating a bubble for his family free from both evil and despair. His God pill is the family pill.
Roosh might have coined his term as "the family pill" instead, but he doesn't have a family. His black pill was the realization that, after years of mastering the art of convincing women to engage in the act of reproduction, he has not actually done any reproducing, nor even found a women to keep. His God pill was to realize that, for all the work he did in discovering the truth about the mating game (the red pill) those truths did not actually lead him in a positive direction. In fact, merely embracing the religion of his youth would have served him better in that regard. Roosh exhibits great humility in acknowledging this misdirection, and in redirecting himself and his many followers towards something better. He shows gratitude that, as a 39-year-old man, he still has a chance to redeem his life in terms of swallowing the family pill. [A similarly placed woman may not be so lucky. The black pill can be even darker for women, which may be why they seem more inclined to resist the red pill to begin with.]
The God pill and family pill are both the same realization: that we should strive to construct our own spheres of order atop the seas of chaos. Thus, the family pill doesn't just mean physically making kids, but in creating an ordered universe for them. That means shielding them from the worst that the world has to offer. I'm typing this up lying next to a 1-day-old baby boy we just brought home from the hospital. During our single night in the maternity ward, we made the mistake of turning on the television when the late night show with Seth Myers happened to be on. Within a few seconds he had already bashed Trump, and the entirety of the next five or ten minutes was spent attacking various Republicans before I had to re-assert the bubble of sanity and turn the device back off. It's not that the corporate program was unabashed party propaganda, but that it was deranged. Just sheer obsession by a corporate media machine enraged that America voted for a candidate whom they were told not to vote for. It's an entertainment show ... who could possibly be entertained by it? To merely view is to partake in the madness.
Clicking OFF is a powerful act of establishing order in your sphere, far more than observing and certainly more so than reacting. It's why, as political as I can be, and so opposed to what the left is doing, I have a strict policy of not politicizing children. It is a tactic of the left. On social media a common meme is something to the extent of: My five-year-old asked me how could we elect a Nazi as president, and all I could do was cry. To the extent they're ever true, it only means a child has been indoctrinated, and at the least it means children are being leveraged to generate emotional appeal towards a political agenda. It's sick, because children are not political pawns. They are young, innocent human beings. There is some analog on the right, with the young girl who does the AOC spoofs, and Soph, a 14-year-old girl who's gotten real big by creating very compelling anti-left rhetoric. I'll admit I'm a little torn on her, since she seems to have reached the age of reason. Still, she's a child. We don't respond to indoctrination of children by counter-indoctrinating them. We do so by un-indoctrinating them. The family pill is the sanity pill. Reacting to crazy people in a way that is equal and opposite to them is still it's own form of crazy. It makes little sense to respond to radical, angry lefties by becoming radical, angry right-wingers. There are many good strategies to countering The Cult, but if we aren't creating sanity bubbles and aren't raising families in them, then we will have effectively joined the cause of madness in any case. The best rebuke to abnormal times is to find a way to live normal lives.
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