#37 - Jacob Siegel on The Information State

<p>Jacob Siegel is a writer and editor at <em>Tablet</em> and author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Information-State-Politics-Total-Control/dp/B0F9LRMVJK/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2ABC1WCVVXTR9&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.dkCPz1CyBExXRJxGLmm305BeHOwGJzGsQA_rwgY3CeQTRGk8SDI-w3_53fzcJgGNtHMoYeKhC2kLNr66i7Cu1FL4McqSA7eMwMu-hrz7cO1IhftWOACxUcn4Qs6YeTDJYEp6OveNxIZm4aUGYk-UTdK0AfgW328i9v8VO6vYhiFWESFvepl_gSYJ7hCZEIrzqpzq8RLFf63TF1UldxHF_ZrV0LXTJN6FwM29qLxw9as.kMyJO6TWG-zoT71sBCxcPumo8nEKmHctMR05QAXv5og&dib_tag=se&keywords=the+information+state&qid=1776379930&sprefix=the+information+stat%2Caps%2C250&sr=8-2" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"><em>The Information State: Politics in the Age of Total Control</em></a>. A U.S. Army veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, he is also a co-host of the <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/2Gne9jhSghDf7yUaI1fQwf" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"><em>Manifesto!</em></a> podcast.</p><p>We discuss his book and what it means for the present and future of the West in the midst of a transformation from the form of representative government we have always known into a whole of society technopoly driven by state-orchestrated surveillance, censorship, and the algorithmic tuning of public opinion.</p>