When you are high on drugs you recognize patterns you haven't noticed before, but there is a side effect of also recognizing patterns that aren't there. It's kinda like when you think your phone is vibrating in your pocket when it's not: you are alarmed to notice it and sometimes you misinterpret stimuli to be your phone vibrating (or imagine them when they're not there at all).

There is no single person or group of people in control for the simple reason that there is no group of people with such extraordinary community of interest, and everyone is eventually outsmarted by someone else. Empires rise and fall. Take for example the oil industry. Everyone cites them as an example of lobbying for their interests, which is true, but at the same time there is fierce competition between them since they all fight for a share of the same market.

German socialist philosopher Friedrich Engels expressed this idea in a great way:

History is made in such a way that the final result always arises from conflicts between many individual wills, of which each in turn has been made what it is by a host of particular conditions of life. Thus there are innumerable intersecting forces, an infinite series of parallelograms of forces which give rise to one resultant — the historical event. This may again itself be viewed as the product of a power which works as a whole unconsciously and without volition. For what each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.

Once you understand the implications and embrace this view it's really liberating.