As I see it, there is not necessarily some Illuminati dictating each piece of the puzzle but rather a convergence of factors that are driving us into a pathway where we walk in the same direction with ever greater speed.

With each passing day, we are giving up our skills and deferring the decisions to all kinds of various algorithms/machines. These compete with not only our current skills but our ability to develop more in the future and it is happening at an ever younger age.

People put their babies and toddlers on tablets and phones with 'educational' games without considering that it is a man-made maze with zero randomization. The child may learn some targeted skill sets but at the loss of the various other skills that would be developed if in a natural environment. In the end, we have children who are low creatives and, all the same.

The various complex problems of the future will take diversity of thought to solve but, we are training people to all think the same. Essentially, it is everyone wearing communist grey of the mind.