If you are seriously concerned with the world I think you should read this:
www(.)amazon(.)com/Wicked-Company-Forgotten-radicalism-Enlightenment/dp/0465028659
In short, in Paris, in the decades before the French Revolution a German nobleman, Paul Henri Thiry, who was Baron d'Holbach, and a group of intellectual decided to hijack the discontent with the 'Ancient Regime' and take over the studies of philosophy, as it can be argued to mean anything.
That way they can persuade you to believe something, sit back with a glass of wine and enjoy watching you work to implement it.
It's giving themselves steering power over the world, without accountability or transparency.
