Resistance 101: Palestine and the Global Awakening Masterclass

Episode 3 ended with a promise: we'd look at the systems that build the silos. This is that episode. Bernays, agnotology, epistemic injustice — the actual architecture of how reality is manufactured and maintained. TIMELINE 1891 — Edward Bernays is born in Vienna. Nephew of Sigmund Freud — twice over.1928 — Bernays publishes Propaganda. Describes an "invisible government" without emb...

This episode maps the Western Muslim spectrum — and uses it to dismantle one of the most powerful tools of colonial control: the silo . The Western mind has built walls between the spiritual and the political, between faith and reason, between the interior life and the life of resistance in the world. These walls are not neutral. They are a specific historical project — and Islam, taken seriously...

Episode 1 asked whether you can use the master's tools. Episode 2 asks the harder question: what happens when people stop resisting — not because they are defeated, but because they are persuaded that resistance is irrational? This episode opens with a ghost story: Tefik Enesans — an old man dying in a Turkish village in 1992. He turns on a tape recorder and starts talking. The Maori revival —...

Can you use the master's tools to dismantle the master's house? Or is the house so structurally rotten that the only honest option is to walk out and build something entirely different? This episode maps the seismic intellectual tension between two giants of Palestinian thought — and the question that runs beneath everything this series will build: Edward Said — secular exile, Columbia pro...