fun fact for everyone, my wife's grandfather is a 32nd degree freemason (there are only 33 degrees), he is also president of the local shriner's chapter, and has weekly phone conversations with the president of the freemason's, he is very rich and very connected. and i have asked him straight up if there are any "conspiracies", or any "new world order" that we should be worried about. he just laughs and tells me "son, the freemason's are basically a fraternity for rich guys, same with skull and crossbones, the only thing that might be shady is the Bilderberg group, and i have met many of them, and they're nothing to be afraid of, the only way they have power, is by the common man fearing their money, they're nothing but a bunch of weak old men, and money is nothing but numbers, fear nothing"
Okay, most people know that the Freemasons, or at least, the Freemason group that "those rich bros" join, is not anything. Neither is the 1600s-1940s Illuminati. But there is a group (groups, maybe) that use the pyramid and eye things, that IS secretly controlling the world. I can't say they call themselves the Illuminati, but we do, and they are up to something. What exactly that is, or wether it's good or bad even, is not known, but it seems like they're manipulating a lot of things.