1. Yes of our own making.
2. I will come back to this
3. To answer this and your second question, I point you in the direction of The Invisible Hand.

It was the English Civil War which initially ushered in the opposition of the Church’s interference in civil affairs. And, through the increasing influence of Masonic writers, primarily John Locke, who promoted a “Natural Law” in contradistinction to Biblical law, the economy became increasingly regarded as a self-governing phenomenon. Therefore, Masonic and Illuminati propagandists increasingly argued that religious morality was not needed to govern economic practices, which in themselves were virtuous. It was the Freemason, Adam Smith, in The Wealth of Nations, who proposed the notion that unrestrained selfishness was actually positive, by producing sufficient wealth to be distributed to other parts of society by an “invisible hand”.

All the leading philosophers of the Enlightenment were Freemasons, or members of the Illuminati, and assisted in propagating its goals. Therefore, through the influence of Lurianic Kabbalah, they fostered the idea that humanity is progressing through ever higher stages of development, which would culminate in the rule of “reason”, and “freedom”, meaning the full emancipation from the tyranny of “superstition” of religion.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Emmanuel Kant Emmanuel Kant According to Illuminati member, Marie Jean Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet, who wrote, Outline of a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind, history progresses through nine stages, with a tenth, still ahead, when man will enjoy freedom, equality, and justice. The first of these epochs, is that of mankind living in kinship organization, with the simplest possible economy and the beginnings of religion. The eight succeeding epochs develop through the origins of language, craft, pastoralism, villages, towns, commerce, and reaching the heights of ancient classical civilization.

Next was the “barbarism” of Christian society, succeeded by the Renaissance, the rise of modern science, with the ninth epoch culminating in the success of the project of the Enlightenment. For Condorcet, “everything points to the fact that we are verging upon the epoch of one of the great revolutions of the human race . . . The existing state of knowledge guarantees that it will be auspicious.” The tenth epoch still in the future, will represent man’s final achievement of full equality, liberty, justice, and abolition of not merely poverty and hunger, but of all remaining impediments upon the human mind.