and why is it a concern to people???
ive googled it and it still isnt clear to me. Every nutjob there is has a 2 hour blog on youtube about it and i dont have the time to sit through it.
Not even the nutjobs know what it's about. People believe all sorts of crazy shit.
The Illuminati was a secret society that existed for a brief period of time (about ten years) in the late 1700's. It's purpose was to bring enlightenment (hence the name) to the people. In the 1780's secret societies were banned in Bavaria (the location of the Illuminati).
There's no evidence that the society has existed since the 1780's. It was claimed way back when that the Illuminati was behind The French Revolution, and since then every paranoid whackjob has come up with nonsensical conspiracy theories linking the Illuminati to decisive historic events, claiming that the world is actually being controlled by a number of powerful men who are members of the Illuminati.
You will find hundreds and hundreds of different theories on the internet about the nature and motives of the Illuminati. A society that, if it even exists in any form, has no power whatsoever.
So basically the idea is that you're not supposed to get it, because its existence and purpose is kept a mystery and a secret to the public. That's why so many people are writing about them. They use the idea of the Illuminati as an excuse to come up with all sorts of weird paranoid shit. To my knowledge, during the past 100 years, the Illuminati has primarily been used as fascist anti-semitic propaganda. The Illuminati is often claimed to be a Zionist movement, consisting of a Jewish elite that plans to take over the world by instating and thus controlling financial systems (such as modern capitalism).
Not long ago there was a member of this site supporting the idea that the Illuminati (in that specific case The Rockefeller Foundation) was orchestrating a rise in female domination on the job market in order to make men obsolete (in a financial and socio-economic sense), meaning that women would no longer have sex with men. This would lead to a crisis of population, which in turn would open up for the possibility for The Rockefeller Foundation to seize power of the world, instating the new world order.
Shit like that is all over the Internet. Read if you want a good laugh, but it's all fiction.