Knowledge as Freedom: Uncovering Manipulation

Listen, you're scrolling through TikTok learning dance moves when you could be learning

how to actually change the world. Here's the hack nobody tells you. Those heavy political

philosophy books gathering dust? They're actually explaining why your government acts

the way it does right now. Take Machiavelli's Prince. Arab leaders have

been using his playbook for decades while telling you to just obey. Or check this out,

there's a guy named Robert Filmer who argued kings are like fathers and you can't question

them. Sound familiar? That's literally the excuse some scholars use today.

The wildest part? Islamic reformers like Al-Kawakibi tried warning us about tyranny over