Some people push it like that, but that’s not really what the observation is about. It’s meant to highlight that it’s not preordained. Life is mostly made up and we should learn to acknowledge that openly. Especially when aspects of that made-up-ness actively oppress people
iirc the red pill was a tracking device. And ostensibly the blue bill would have been sleeping pills. So he’d be passed out with a tracking device inside of him