not wide open at all. You already mentioned it yourself; control.
Problem is, every time a person gets close to breaching the hump of awareness, every time the conversation gets to this particular point of fact, it breaks down under people's scrutiny for "but why?'....people seem to be really be hung up on wanting to understand the motives of world-class criminals as though it's a necessary pretext required to validate that world-class criminals are running the world. Personally, I don't want to understand the criminal mind, nor do I feel obligated to understand it in order to be aware of the various ways it runs this world.