Lawrence.com

November 9, 1983

http://www.filmsforaction.org/

Lawrence, KS

Lawrence, KS

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I have a blog on Lawrence.com called "Just the Red Pill," a reference to the choice Neo makes in The Matrix to either take the blue pill (which would send him back to sleep), or the red pill (which would show Neo the truth about the world he'd been living in).

Largely a symbolic choice between apathy and action, between being content with false realities or seeking the truth, where ever it leads, this blog is necessarily meant to challenge, question, and inspire. There are no blue pills on offer here. Just a straight dose of alternative perspectives on the world, alternative information you won't get from the TV or newspapers, and alternative explorations into the self and our relationship with others.

Cheers!

Siddhartha and Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse.
Ishmael, The Story of B & Beyond Civilization by Daniel Quinn.
Be Here Now by Ram Dass.
The Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu.
The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight by Thom Hartmann.
Straw Dogs by John Grey.
Eco-cities by Richard Register.
Culture Jam by Kalle Lasn.
Rules for Radicals by Saul D. Alinsky.
Endgame: Resistence by Derrick Jenson.
The Dance of Anger by Harriet Lerner.
Adbusters magazine subscription.
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins.
Zen Mind, Beginners Mind by Shunryu Suzuki.
This Is It by Alan Watts.
And my favorite book of all time: the book that is woven into the very fabric of all living systems, ecology, and nature.

Go Organic!, A Convenient Truth: Solutions from Curitiba Brazil, The End of Suburbia, The Future of Food, The Money Masters, The Take, The Power of Community, The Corporation, Oil Smoke & Mirrors, Orwell Rolls in His Grave, Ram Dass: Fierce Grace, OutFoxed, Wal-Mart: the High Cost of Low Prices, Black Gold, Uncounted, The Diamond Empire, Toxic Sludge is Good For You, No Logo