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172 | The Realignment Conference: Antonio García Martínez, Jacob Helberg, and Mike Solana: Technology x Politics, U.S.-China, and Local Politics

The Realignment

The Realignment

Saager Enjeti, Technology, Policy, News, Marshall Kosloff, International Relations, Politics, News Commentary, Public Policy, U.s. Politics, National Security, Economics

4.82.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2021

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Today we’re featuring excerpts from our Realignment conference in Miami. Antonio García Martínez on how culture, economics, and politics are downstream from technology. Jacob Helberg on his book: The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power. Mike Solana on local politics when everything’s hyper-nationalized. Subscribe to The Realignment’s Substack Newsletter: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Visit The Realignment’s Bookshop to support the show: https://bookshop.org/lists/the-realignment-bookshop

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0:00.0

Marshall and Saga here. Welcome back to the realignment.

0:09.2

Hey everyone good morning. Happy Tuesday. We've got a very special

0:14.0

three-part episode for everybody. We know that there was mass demand to attend realignment conference two weeks ago

0:21.1

but obviously 99.9999

0:23.7

9% of y'all could not make it to my Emmy for a really great set of conversations. So here's what we're doing

0:29.1

We have taken our three one-on-one fireside chats at Tony Garcia Martinez. He's been on the show before fan favorite

0:38.2

Jacob Helberg also been on the show as well and then Mike Salana also on the show as well too. You could find their three episodes

0:46.2

linked in the show notes. But soccer what did we talk about with each of them starting with Antonio going to Jacob and then finishing up with Mike Salana?

0:55.3

These three episodes are both good extensions of what we talked about previously, but there's a lot of new information there

1:00.4

I mean with Antonio what we really get to is about the internet and how it's just changed everything

1:07.0

And I know that may sound very broad but attempts to rein in what we understand as the modern internet are almost certainly going to backfire

1:14.7

Because of the way that we know that information rapidly spreads and how that changes society

1:19.6

Antonio has a great articulation of Gutenberg of the written word about how analogous it is

1:24.9

Today to Facebook how the censorship debates literally don't matter because that's not what we're actually arguing about and what the nature of the internet itself is

1:33.9

In terms of a medium of communication the same thing whenever it comes to Jacob

1:37.6

I mean with Jacob we talked about China. I know to some controversy which was kind of fun

1:42.0

Which we address actually there in the episode

1:44.1

But with Jacob what we talk about is is what does the new paradigm with China look like in a bipartisan fashion?

1:51.2

That's actually probably the most important with Mike. It's a same thing that we talked about on our episode

1:57.0

But we really delve into the more recent developments around San Francisco around what exactly has gone wrong with cities

2:03.6

And why did republicans suck at providing an actual agenda for cities that goes beyond any sort of national politics and has to do with like

2:12.4

I don't know public transportation

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