Opinion

George Washington and the Red Pill

2/13/2019|Updated: 3/11/2019

Commentary

A description of George Washington’s transformation from gentleman planter to revolutionary patriarch of a nation could be a real-life template for Neo, the protagonist of “The Matrix” and a character likewise awakening to his seminal role as a revolutionary agent of liberty, after swallowing a red pill.

Philip E. Brooks

Author

Philip E. Brooks is an American writer, speaker, award-winning pilot, filmmaker, investigator, designer, and entrepreneur. He advocates for the return of Washington’s “Farewell Address To The People of The United States” to public view. His great grandfather Joseph Woodell was a first lieutenant in General Washington's revolutionary Continental Army in the Virginia campaigns of 1781. Brooks serves now in the Ministry of the Doers of the Word Baptist Church of Newbury, Ohio.