Are there hidden forces controlling our world?
It's tough to believe that after thousands of years, no one group has really reigned control in. Many nations were controlled by single or few factions for hundreds of years. Most of these factions always placed families in positions of power, and many of these factions were made up of families. With all that time and power, did they really do nothing except squander their wealth in indulgency?
Social experiments are commonly performed in our modern world. Even Riot, who owns league of legends, constantly performs social experiments and constantly collects data on how humans operate. Our government does it with polls, usually quite openly, and so do our scientists. However I doubt that social experiments only started happening in the last hundred years.
A group like the Illuminati, secretly planning and guiding the world and all its nations could very well exist. Maybe it's a group of tactical humans, or maybe there really are divine beings, or aliens.
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