Escaping The Matrix (book excerpts)

Escaping the Matrix — How we the people can change the world
by Richard Moore. Published by The Cyberjournal Project, Redwood City, California
http://escapingthematrix.org/

Found out about this in an old issue of "Communities Magazine" (winter '06) by Molly Morgan. The part I shared with the author about how much I liked it is:

"...it is crucial to ...find our common identity, and come together as humans, moving beyond the ideological structures that have been created to divide us from one another. The current political systems were not designed..."


Basically, the author, Richard Moore seems to be articulating what indigenous folks worldwide have been trying to get out to the *strategically challenged* followers of colonialism (old and new) since the beginnings of their tresspasses, i.e. moving beyond dualistic forms of seeing each other.

Here's one excerpt from http://escapingthematrix.org/red_pill.html :

Our Harmonization Imperative

Our societies and political systems are characterized by competition and struggle among cultural factions and political parties. When we try to change this system by forming adversarial political movements we are playing into this game – a game rigged so that elites always win. If we really want to change the system, we need to learn how to come together as humans, moving beyond the ideological structures that have been created to divide us from one another. We are all in this together, and a better world for one is a better world for all. It’s not about winning, nor really even about agreement: it’s about working together in pursuit of our common interests.



To conclude, the "Table of Contents" section says a lot as well!:

Foreword

The Matrix

Are you ready for the red pill?

Imperialism and the Matrix

World War II and Pax Americana

Popular rebellion and the decline of the postwar blueprint

London banking elites and the strategy of oil-based dominance

World War I and the House of Morgan

The Anglo-American alliance

Abandoning Bretton Woods: the petrodollar scam

The neoliberal project

9/11 and the New American Century

The management of discontented societies

The UN and the new-millennium blueprint

Capitalism and the Matrix

Civilization in crisis

Elite responses to the crisis

A brief history of humanity

Natural evolution: competition within a cooperative web

The nature of primordial societies

Cultural evolution: stability within adaptability

Origins of civilization: inside and outside the Garden

The co-evolution of conditioning and hierarchy

We The People and the Transformational Imperative

We the People and cultural transformation

Lessons from our long experience of struggle

Our Transformational Imperative

Our Harmonization Imperative

Adversarial systems and representative democracy

Representative democracy and elite hegemony

Divide and rule: the role of factionalism

Our Harmonization Imperative

The dynamics of harmonization

Meeting dynamics: collaborative & adversarial

A gap in our cultural repertoire

Two promising meetings

The Michigan conference

Maclean’s “empowered dialog”

The Rogue Valley Wisdom Council

The role of a facilitator

The dynamics of harmonization

Collective wisdom: an ancient heritage

We the People

Envisioning a transformational movement

In search of a path to social transformation

Harmonization and cultural transformation

Cultural transformation at the level of community

Community empowerment as a transformational movement

What are the prospects for such a movement?

Political transformation and regime intervention

Social transformation

Transformation: the means are the ends

Envisioning a liberated global society

The basic paradigm: harmonization and community sovereignty

Regional affairs

A model for global self-governance
The management of the commons
The maintenance of peace
Democracy and property rights

Constitutions
The transition process
The moment of convergence
Common-sense economics and the management of the commons

Repossessing the commons

The global conversion project
Reflections on humanity’s future
Cultural evolution in a democracy
Education outside the Matrix

Democracy and personal liberation

Afterword

With knowledge comes responsibility

References

Bibliography and online resources
(...)
Media and propaganda

Online news and information
The current regime and how it got that way
Toward a sensible society
Dialog and community empowerment


What books have been pivotal to you? Please share below in the comments section

Books from off the top of my head include:
Wasase by Taiaiake Alfred
Stickman by Paola Igliori
The Underground History of American Education by John Taylor Gatto (http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/)