People will listen to what they "want" to hear. People want acceptance from their peer/friends or relatives. People are gregarious. Nobody wants to be shun away. Why? Because of fear to be alone, fear of time and inevitable death, so they want to spend time and live the life with whom he can communicate. People want to be accepted by other in order their life to be meaningful. Now, in order to be accepted, people have to work within the society and family. You typically don't create rules in society. For most cases the rules are already there before you are born. And you can not change the rule all by yourself. It's too much work. And time is running against you. So the most pragmatic thing to get accepted by others is to go along to get along. That's how you don't have to spend lot of time to change everything. Instead you fit in. It's easy! Anything efficient, is also inbuilt in our system. Our entire learning is based on time efficiency. Look at those in Rescorla Wagner model. Look at Fibonacci sequence in the nature. Time is the constrain in the material/physical world. Time is the constraints of thermodynamics. As long as something physical, time constraints are always there. In this society people have no time or intention to discover everything all by themselves. They don't want to hear what's the reality. Honesty is, most of the time, time inconvenient. Honesty is painful. Honesty requires willing to accept inconvenience no matter what. Honesty is prime prerequisite to know the truth. And hence people are not interested in truth. There will be always some eyes that will not see, ears that will not hear, brain that will not perceive. Do you think, generally,  people is more ignorant than you. Think again. Its a matter of choice. The problem is people don't care about the real truth, they just care for convenience and time efficiency. In summary, people, generally speaking, don't care for the truth because its too time and effort consuming but unfortunately, in long run it's hurting themselves.

We human are influenced by words or ideas and our decision is only as good as our information. Most of the information we have is second hand and given to us like Mosaic Law written in tablets. Math using some axiom is vulnerable to err if the axioms are not true. No matter how rigorous and beautiful as it seems, no mathematics can prove its own axiom. We have to rely on the axiom to be true without proof. Similarly we build our world starting with second hand  and often politico-religiously biased words and information resulting in bad decisions and dissatisfaction which make us shun away from finding the question that is really important. All ideologies are biased and not helping much. If you need other person's interpretation to see whats going on then you are becoming a victim of ideology that might have a flaw or hidden agenda. Because you are attached to that ideology, you become blinded by the blind spots (of Godel). Unless you find out and assess the validity of the information that was passed to you, for yourself, where the information comes from, what was the original context, nothing will make any sense, and you will fall into prototypical "why bother, nothing is important. So just enjoy your life with football, alcohol, sex, drugs,  and rock n' roll."  As a matter of fact, nothing is hidden from you, everything is in front of your very eye. If one fool [like me] can see it, so does the other fools.
All it takes is the sincere willingness to know by observing and thinking for yourself and joining the pieces of puzzle that will show you the big picture. Its very convenient to pretend to be carefully oblivious so that no one can suspect that you are just an ignorant and thus avoiding the minor psychological inconvenience. Remember, there is a ongoing conflicts between light and darkness for your mind inside you and outside you. So don't be gullible. Don't assume any information unequivocally from one agent or another without assessing it by your judgement and wisdom. Put more weight on your own wisdom, only when you can see how your thoughts can be influenced!  

The Masters of the world once again [See the emphasis, "once again" indicating this is not the first or last time it happened or will happen] realize that conventional classical religion, although still has the essence and served the purpose well, will not be good enough to keep the herd in lines in an increasingly self aware, intelligent, more evolved human of its time and the time coming. They foresaw the problem and redesigned the control machinery with a new twist. No wonder why the same source in Italy/Rome and later Europe (esp. Khazars or Caucasus) gave birth to Renaissance, Commercial Science, Roman Religion, Financial instruments, Nationalism, Politics, Mafia etc.. No matter what you do, you will fit into one of those paradigm or at the very least you will need money [which is the bottom line and infallible tool for mass control], so these instruments can be used to control you and your service can be extracted for the Master's purpose. Is that all? Is Power everything? Is comfort or self gratification everything? I don't think the Masters aren't evolved enough to be consumed by theses earthly possessions or needs. After all, the Masters already mastered the alchemical secrets to be a Master and they are too smart to be consumed by those mundane affairs. So why they need power and a centralized administration? Are they planning to undertake some gigantic steps in future, that will need so much resources that the only way to achieve those is to have one single central ruling order? Do they think the steps they are planning to undertake have some eternal [ or for lack of a better term, Divine] purpose? How can they be sure, what they are doing or planning to do, is the best thing for the rest of the herd? What is that purpose and Why?