I find that the powers that be are not as organized as you think. Rather a lot of the metastructure in society is pretty optimal and likely converent across cu

I find that the powers that be are not as organized as you think. Rather a lot of the metastructure in society is pretty optimal and likely converent across cultures. There is a lot of manipulation though but most of it is short term tactical towards candidates and products. Some of it is longer term and more strategically ideological but it is still pretty focused and much of it funded by billionaires - Koch, Soros types, etc. The billionaires do fight and that is why so many people pick particular ideoligcal billionaires to see as masters behind the curtains, such as Koch (coal), Adelson (Israel), Mercer (Trump, brexit) or Soros ("open society").