Satz, you're right, it is a complete rip-off of archebyte's misguided blog post. You can even see that I've said the same thing in the comments of that post that I said here.
That blog has some other great posts by the way. Just not that one.

RevdKathy: It is a refrence to the first Matrix movie, where taking the red pill kicks you out of the Matrix. But that movie was referencing Carroll's weird dreamlike classic.