For me it was the book Ishmael by Daniel Quinn. His biases are clear, but even if you disagree with him, looking past those there is still the very important l

For me it was the book Ishmael by Daniel Quinn. His biases are clear, but even if you disagree with him, looking past those there is still the very important lesson that much of what we take for granted as true about the world is really not much more than shared mythology, not some objective, universal truth. So regardless of what you think about his particular viewpoint I think that’s an important lesson that helps you examine the world and assumptions we all make more critically. If there is such a thing as a “red pill” moment, that book was it for me. After reading it there were many things about our culture that I just couldn’t take seriously anymore.