OP is right about everything
https://youtu.be/1DKbyCCh9I0?feature=shared
according to this supposedly top elite whistleblower, the dominant faction on the universe is a club compossed of different alien species, who have all gone through a digitalization proccess.
this means they have fused their bodies and consciousness with digital technology. this not only makes them immortal, but allows them to travel unlimited distaces instantly, since traveling faster than the speed of light is impossible. however, the consequence of this proccess is that a digitalized being is severed from his connection to, how this guy says, the "hyperdimensional quantum consciousness", aka "the father", or "kether" in kabbalah. and is no longer able to reincarnate or ascend, and is forced to suck the quantum entropy and free will from lesser beings in order to not decay into nothingness. (or something like that. not sure about what or how they succ exactly). the rituals the elites make resemble this practice, but most elites are still human and just do it for the kicks (and probably adrenochrome). the practice of exchanging a sacrifice for knowledge, however, is real and was done to this club.
this club has been guiding the elites on top of the pyramid, who in turn guide the human development towards digitalization. all this progress and slavery over thousands of years? it was just to chip us all and make us part of the digital empire.
the interviews of this whistleblower are very extensive and cover a lot of this topics in-depth. I suggest you to watch them, as there is no way I can cramp a coherent explanation of everything he said in a 4chan thread.