Students think Enlightenment philosophers are dead, boring, and irrelevant. This assignment drags all six of them into 2026 and asks the only question that gets teenagers to care: if Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau, and Blackstone had social media today, what would they actually post — and which one would you follow? Across four sections, students build each thinker's social media profile, write a 60-second TikTok script explaining one philosopher's big idea, finish a group-cha