People in Academia and working in think tanks all have something in common. They believe they know the one and only truth. They also believe that the average person is incapable of understanding their genius and that instead the average person is part of the great ignorant and dangerous masses. When given grants and other benefits for their thoughts they see it as proof that they are right and that those who pay them see their true genius. If you disagree with them it is because you are just ignorant or bigoted. These same people do not believe in democracy and never did.
The global corporate elites found the academicians easy to use and control. Both groups believe in totalitarian control and in uniformity. Both groups detest the nation state and believe in the need for one centrally controlled government with with local governments deciding how you live your day to day life.
What the elites propose is a technocracy built on their idea of absolute rationalism. This is to say that they believe there are absolutes in finding the solutions to any problem. These same people reject the idea of a God or a morality based absolutes of good and evil. These elites now control all forms of communication and large organizations.
The reality of what is going on is spiritual and the elites bringing about the changes we are seeing are incapable of seeing the spiritual war that they are pawns in. Look around you. A few people have caused a complete lockdown of the world and it only took days. Governments around the world have created unlimited amounts of "debt" backed up by absolutely nothing. Freedom of speech and freedom of assembly with hardly a complaint and no reporting of those who do. Churches willing suspending services.
What we are seeing is not the last seven years of Revelation, what we are seeing are the birth pangs that precede it. It is the transformation of the world creating the infrastructure that will be needed for the end times to fully come into play.