Do Muslims Need the Red Pill?

For myself, I view red pill theories the same way that I look at critical theories, like critical race theory or intersectional feminism. There are theories piled upon theories piled upon theories, with little to no applicability in the real world. People believe in them because they want to. Because no matter how inaccurate and disprovable they are, they provide them with some sort of template for interpreting society. The issue for me though is that all of these theories, red pill theory included, are the product of a society, of a culture, and a mentality that is not Islamic.

We're not talking about objective science here. It's at best a soft science, a philosophy, which means it is informed heavily by kufr. Adopting concepts like this will only lead to problems for us. This is an area, men and women and their relationships, in which Islam is perfectly sufficient to guide us. The West is and always has been profoundly confused about human nature, about gender relations, about race, about rights, about pretty much every aspect of being a human being.

Every theory that they've ever developed to resolve this confusion has only made matters worse. And why wouldn't it? The theories were all developed in a state of confusion. It's not really useful or appropriate for us to look for guidance in any of this. It's easy to get caught up in a theory that seems to simplify things in a quasi authoritative way, particularly when it simplifies matters for us that seem to be complicated and important, like the relationships between men and women.

But when you simplify something, you inevitably get things wrong, and the errors tend to be fairly easy to point out, as long as you have not invested yourself too deeply into the theory to see it. A lot of red pill theory is grounded in the theory of evolution, that human beings are just at the top of the mammalian food chain. So the behavior of animals is seen as informative for how humans behave. This is how such and such species chooses its mate and humans do the same. But we know that this isn't the case.

Humans are banyadum. We have a unique origin, a unique development, a unique nature, a unique function in this world, and our relationships reflect this. And Islam, the Quran and Sunnah, provides us with all the information we need about ourselves, about each other, and about our relationships. Now there will likely be some overlap between the truth as Islam explains it and red pill theories, but there will also be some overlap between this and feminism, between this and Marxism, between this and capitalism, between this and Jungian psychology, between this and any number of other efforts that have ever been made in the West to understand reality. Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

But we shouldn't go to what may accidentally be right sometimes instead of to what is always right, and that is Islam.