All my life i asked these questions and i can answer to all of them - "If you trust everything they say then yes".
School
This is the reason i will not allow my kids to go into regular school, i really like the idea of Elon Musk, he created own school for his kids and when most of the kids in the world don't like school Elon's kids want go to school and here's why:
School is without grades because kids are not stupid to put numbers on them, they just don't like shit they teach to them.
Hands-on experience is more important than making children memorize and regurgitate answers to questions.
The most stupid thing about public school system they teach shit for years and then we go to college to learn so called important stuff, we wasted our years.
School is a waste of time, my family teached me to read and basic math all other shit they put in my mind is not useful and does not help me to survive in this world.
I started from school because they teach shit we don't like and Elon is a spark for greater educational system we will have in the future.
Integration to society of slaves
Now your mind is full of shit and you need to get a job, you want to become independent, rent an apartment, build a house, pay taxes, have kids and do everything they programmed you with TV.
All your life you done shit you don't like and you probably chosen a degree you don't like and now you can clean your ass with it because smart employers don't give a fuck about your diploma they want to see your portfolio and work you done in the past.
What degree i would recommend?
Engineering, it's interesting it's like being architect of the world and most of the millionaires are engineers.
Slaves don't take risks
Somehow you got a job now you feel comfortable but if you don't take risks and don't have a money managament plan you will spend your life in rat race, you will get just enough to pay taxes buy average car and buy things you don't need, slaves spend too much.
What is illuminati?
Illuminated - people who know, know what?
Illuminati looks like mystery but it doesn't all you need to know to become illuminated is that you can achieve anything no matter in what social status you think you are.
These conspiracionists just a people who had problems to integrate into society, they start to search for reasons to hate the world and illuminati is a great reason to pick for them, if you can't prove shut the fuck up message for all of them, they just speculate, no one can prove that 9/11 is a false flag attack or that they drop chemtrails, illuminati is just a business niche for depressed people having issues in live, you can buy books about illuminati and after you read them all you get is speculations.
No matter how you call them illuminati, 322 skulls and bones they and we are just monkeys in slow evolution process, we together do all we can to make this world a better place and we do mistakes no matter we illuminati, secret societies and whatever if they are so bad you would be dead now, enjoy your life.
Brainwashing
It's like advertisements, when they advertise they want you to buy, when they brainwash they want to affect or change your view. Example:
A politician want to be elected he paid for media to show him like a hero and then he can lie for all country that he will do incredible things, the one who lies most will get elected.
Most of the time brainwashing is used to get votes, change views and to convince country that it's smart to spend money on wars.
Attention Distraction
Whenever they done mistakes governing country let's look at Kardashians ass and Justin Bieber's face.
All your life they distract you with information, they forced you go to school, now you learned to force yourself do things you don't really like, rethink your life, unlearn and find path you really like.
P.S
I don't have all the answers and sometimes i feel like an allien trapped in this world, i wrote this because Steemit is a meditation for me i am just trying to organize my own thoughts.
If you spend months researching these topics reply below, i would love to read.
Months? I spent decades. And what I concluded is that the problem is the people and not the system. Yes, I know how the system trains us to be compliant, ignorant, obedient, among other adjectives, however, the fact of the matter is that artificial entities and constructs do not do things. Only people do. Just as a wrench does not fix a car, nor does a gun kill, the person using the tool or instrument is the one responsible for the deed whether it be good or bad.
In the Declaration of Independence, the self evident truth was expressed that governments derive their just power from the consent of the governed. I believe that whole heartedly. I have seen it in action many times over the years. In fact, one day my father decided to revoke the power of his signature on my little sisters school enrollment form. She still attended school until about 2 weeks later when my parents received a call from the school office and told them that she could no longer attend (the public school) as she was no longer registered. She was home schooled after that and never was there a truant officer or any other government agent knocking at the door checking on the welfare of one of "their" kids. We didn't know how things worked when I dropped out of school so those people did show up.
The point of the matter is that individuals have a lot more control of their lives then they realize and they relinquish that control without understanding what they are doing or have done. And yes I agree that 99.999999% of them were unwittingly induced to do such things. However, the power still lies within each of them. And as they begin to consciously exercise their inherent power, I believe the "system" will no longer seem to be the problem.
Great post! Many questions indeed..