>magic sword (with a handle whose image is an all seeing eye being consumed) trigs some folks
There are old orders in this world, anon.They aren’t all one. They compete. But they all know there are old cycles to the earth, a human and the development of societies. Hence the saying “Bad times make strong men, strong men make good times, good times make weak men, weak men make bad times.”
You can decide for yourself where in that cycle we currently are and whether all “secret societies” are of Good or of Evil.
My guess is that the various Orders are at war, and some have endeavored to reorganize the grand chessboard so that corporatist authoritarian globalism doesn’t reign over the day, week, year nor next century of human progress, progress which is fast approaching if not literally at the crossroads of a world where authoritarian elites could have a monetary system, military, trafficking networks AND AI and all the surveillance apparatus at their disposal.
Hopefully the tenants of the Order that crafted the US Constitution shall prevail. We are all patriots who strive in an imperfect world to perfect in action that which was put into word in the 10 Commandments and the US constitution.