Pablo, John, and I have informal lists of Matrix-style "Red Pills"—knowledge that shows you more about how far the rabbit hole goes, that, once gained, cannot be ignored.
Here's mine:
Ishmael, by Daniel Quinn
Political analysis by Noam Chomsky
Manufacturing Consent is a good place to start.
Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem
Excellent summaries from Miskatonic and Wikipedia, or read Gödel's original paper, On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems.
my list: http://freality.org/~pablo/redpill.html
Posted by Pablo at July 4, 2004 05:35 PM