I very much disagree with that kind of dismissive attitude towards how much influence the occult has on how pretty much all things have gone down. I think it is at the core, not just some gently whispered suggestions in the dark. The narratives that are pushed, the plans that are pushed, the propoganda that is pushed is far too cohesive and stretches back into antiquity for things to be gentle nudges. There is a fearsome, inhuman intelligence behind it all with a much longer time preference than is possible for a single human to really comprehend, but that also is one of the things that is pushing the so-called elite to trans-humanism and AI tech, since that can theoretically extend the lifetime of ideas past their natural sell-by date.