Is it really possible for one group to control and redirect the entire trajectory of the world?
Or does humanity march in one inevitable direction (no matter how many times you roll the dice) that even the elites are at mercy of, that escalates in stages and collective epiphanies (until it resets)?

Is it really possible for any one group/entity to control the entire direction humanity goes in?
Or is there a collective inherent conscious/psychology in humanity moving us along a conveyor belt that far outweighs their power, to where the elites can only watch it and maybe capitalize here and there, which escalates up in inevitable stages and epiphanies (until it resets)?