>>13673355Quaker-Shakers rule consulting which rules management which is running the organs of the nation into the ground. Best practices are post-human and easily modified to accommodate machine logic. The goal is the business of life removed, which removes a lot of anything to talk about, leaving people more time to work on passion projects, which tend to drift when it's solo work, leaving more time to talk to God via your finally undistracted inner light and return to the Godhead.
Mormons are huge into venture capital. They admit to 100 billion which usually means at least several times that. If someone's getting seed capital for something that could hasten the apocalypse, their hand is in it. The Jews with their varna slaves are the biggest transhuman faction. They want to avoid death for reasons both practical and for the same reasons Eldar try to avoid Slaanesh. The varna slaves are convinced if they just keep their heads down and keep programming all the crazy people will kill themselves and they'll sweep up the ashes and build huts and maybe find a white wife roaming the cannibal-infested highways of The Road.
The Chinese know they're uncreative backstabbers, but they study everything so very hard and they desperately want the chance to create the global British Empire the real one lost interest in quickly. Their thinking is burdened by shame and they'll try to keep too many plates spinning and fail but they could do a lot of damage on the way down. And the City Of London is an amalgamation of the true Old Money, the stolen wealth of the new world and India and China and Africa and Europe, nearly invisible, always inscrutable, and winning. There's a reasonable chance we have an old Carthaginian population too with some power. Their pantheon keeps turning up and human sacrifice continues in a way far different from the Aztec madness. They're hard to pin down though. Heavy focus on North America because Europe really only serves the City of London.
