I'm not going to explain the mask issue, you seem to be intelligent enough to have figured out that it was just a ploy for the slaves to virtue signal to each other and their owners. The ones you call controllers and are visible from our point of view as plebs are just the low level managerial staff employed by the bloodline elites. These equate to the high table in the fiction John Wick. Above the table there is the invisible college which are the real controllers but only a handful of people are aware who these are. I could continue on but I think the discussion would become too schizo for most.
As for the second part of your question, just look around you. People are waking up but I think most of this awakening is not organic. I's a controlled demolition type of operation. There are tons of gatekeepers and deceivers pandering half truths which do much more damage than full lies or omissions.
You have to become your own source of knowledge, sharpen your awareness and intuition, and become your own shaman.