If we were being secretly controlled the world would be less of a shit show.
Power is more easily developed by condemned men serving decades to life in prisons than smart successful savvy persons who live a prosperous life. They themselves are mostly pyramid schemes of extortion (these days, I am assured it was not always so.)
The things these do for fun and for profit cannot be paid for with money or be accomplished by anyone in their right minds.
You know how Americans and power are, always taking things too far, without regard for consequences.