I thought Robert Anton Wilson created the Illuminati an it was an ideal... satirical at best. I guess there is more to it that I just never paid attention to.

The membership of the international oligarchy is only loosely tied together where their business interests intersect. They are are just rich assholes pulling whatever levers they think will make them richer. They are a crafty, self-interested, craven lot, smart but not really wise enough to be called illuminated.

I can't say they exist or not, but it's pretty obvious there is a banking cartel that controls a lot of the world economics. There are 20 odd banks, that control most lending to 180ish major world corporations, that loby and influence the major governments of the world, and thus world economics and politics. That isn't a wild delusion, that is fact. Money is power and power corrupts.

If your going to believe in wild delusions with no real actual evidence, why not just believe in a God? People will be less likely to treat you as an idiot and it's no less proven than the illuminati.

I know Mr Brown likes them a lot