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What if knowledge, humanity’s highest pursuit, is also its most powerful form of control?

From Plato’s philosopher-king to Foucault’s surveillance state, this film traces the long story of how truth became intertwined with authority, and how our modern systems of information still shape what we see, think, and believe.

Across history, knowledge promised freedom, yet often delivered hierarchy.

Plato imagined wisdom as justice, Bacon turned knowledge into mastery, and modern governments and corporations transformed information into a mechanism of governance. Today, algorithms know us better than we know ourselves, and the question of knowledge as power has never been more urgent.

This Philowhisp episode invites reflection on how we live within networks of power, how our data becomes a new form of rule, and how truth itself can be reclaimed as an act of resistance.

Through history, philosophy, and poetic narration, the film explores one enduring question:
Can knowledge still liberate us, or has it become the empire we live inside?

• To understand how ideas about truth and power evolved through history.
• To uncover the invisible ways knowledge shapes freedom in the digital age.
• To reflect on how awareness and discernment can restore autonomy in a world of algorithms.

0:00 — What if truth itself became a tool of control?
0:36 — From Plato’s philosopher-king to the politics of knowing.
1:08 — Knowledge as virtue, and as hierarchy.
1:42 — Aristotle’s order: classifying the world to govern it.
2:16 — The birth of epistemic power: knowledge as rule.
2:45 — Bacon’s revolution, when knowing became domination.
3:18 — “Knowledge is power”: the rise of instrumental reason.
3:47 — Hobbes and the engineering of obedience.
4:12 — Descartes’ machine world, and the loss of reverence.
4:43 — Enlightenment light, shadowed by exclusion.
5:12 — The empire of reason and the science of control.
5:46 — How classification built the colonial mind.
6:14 — Marx unmasks ideology: truth as class weapon.
6:45 — Nietzsche’s revelation, every truth hides a will to power.
7:15 — Knowledge as creation, domination, and desire.
7:43 — Foucault’s revolution: power/knowledge as one.
8:16 — The birth of the disciplinary age, prisons, schools, hospitals.
8:47 — Surveillance as normalization, the Panopticon within.
9:15 — “To know oneself is to internalize control.”
9:46 — From modernity to data, knowledge as infrastructure.
10:18 — The algorithm as the new philosopher-king.
10:46 — Surveillance capitalism: soft control through prediction.
11:14 — Governments and corporations shaping behavior invisibly.
11:42 — When knowledge no longer seeks truth, but efficiency.
12:14 — The shadows of the cave return, now in code and pixels.
12:44 — Counter-knowledge: resistance in a wired world.
13:09 — The ethics of knowing, awareness as responsibility.
13:35 — The new frontier: knowledge as both danger and hope.
14:00 — The final question: will knowledge free us, or define us?

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