Of course there are people behind the governments, etc. seeking to control them for their own benefits, but it's not a conspiracy, and they're not a secret society.
We as humans seem to have a natural tendency to explain things through agency, this is just another example.
So, if private individual collude with government officials secretly in order to affect policy and to influence government generally in their favour, then what would you call it if not a conspiracy? That is, to conspire together towards a shared goal? And the Bilderberg group is not a masonic-style secret society like Skull and Bones, but it is nevertheless a simultaneously clandestine and under-reported gathering as well as one that involves some of the world's most influential people. And of course, some attendees do belong to secret societies. Kissinger and, I believe, David Rockefeller are also members of the so-called Bohemian Club.
We as humans seem to have a natural tendency to explain things through agency, this is just another example.
Well, that's a genetic fallacy for a start. And the fact is that these people
are agents who are consciously working towards the establishment of, in their own words, a 'new world order,' whatever that entails. This is not a case of the mere illusion of agency, it's quite clearly an example of it; it's something these people are actually doing.