Well I was kidding about being "comforted" about a secret controlling group. But i don't believe such a group exists. I DO think history is easy to find. If you go to a university and study the secret societies you will find that, while they had some power, they could not control the world. Not even close. Most of them died out.
It would be magnitudes more difficult to control the world today.
ok since you obviosuly have no clue, perhaps backtracking is what you need to do.
Start with the United Nations. Track their history and the people involved, then track their history.
Rinse and repeat.
Do the same for the club or rome, council on foreign relations, the carneigie foundation, the ford foundation, the rhodes trust/rhodes scholarship, the rockefeller foundation(s), world bank, international monetary fund, world wildlife foundation, knights of malta, freemasons, bilderberg group, the bohemian society, and oh so many many more.
Its pretty simple. They worship intellect. Luciferians. They believe man can become their own God through knowledge. Their goal is to learn and teach each other how to control everyone else. Thats the big secret. The Light. They believe that because of their superior intellect, and the fact the rest of us do not learn and use our intellect to it fullest ability, they have the supreme right to rule over us.
Think about it. All these elites are the most powerful people in the world. The richest. When you are a competative business-person at the top of your game, and you have all the money in the world to buy anything and anyone you could ever want, whats left to attain or strive for

Pure unadulterated Power ... Control.
Every major player of wealth, power, and control is part of a secret society linked with others. They have rituals around fire performing mock sacrifice rituals. That mock sacrifice represents us. The fire represent knwoledge and intellect, becasue fire was and still is the most important "technology" every invented. Nothing we value today would exist if it wasnt for fire. Nothing. Fire is one of their most important symbols. And its all about symbolism and there are alot of symbols.
Think about man before fire. He was lonely, scared, cold, and was hunted down and soemtimes eaten. he didnt know what to do. Until that first strike of lightening struck a tree causing fire. Eventually man was able to keep the fire going. Then manipulate and create it. He was probably thought of as the first King, the first Priest, the first scientist. Everyone worshiped him because of this new technology that SAVED THEM from the terrors of the night. The animals trying to kill them.
Luciferians take this a bit farther and see daylight night as the Dark Prince, and daylight as the Saviour.
this is just a minute fraction of what they elite worship and believe.
this is not what I believe.
it doesnt matter what you or I believe.
it matters what THEY believe because of its daily effects on us, our families and communities, our governments and monetary systems ... and our very lives depend on it.
they own it all ... global corporations .. governments ... leaders ... legislators ... local school boards ...etc
most are dupes while the ones near the top are adepts.
wake up.
learn your history.
besides its alot more interesting that watching Survivor or a football game.