As a night owl, I’ve always enjoyed late-night talk radio. Years ago, one of my favorite late-night shows was Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell. It was the radio equivalent of The X-Files, exploring every conspiracy theory imaginable, including alien abductions, ghosts, and, of course, the Illuminati, a clandestine world organization dedicated to establishing a “one-world” government. It was Q before Q became cool, but it was just entertainment back then.   Art Bell often spoke of a trend he called the “quickening.” This was his term for the accelerating pace of change and chaos in the world. He frequently noted how these fringe ideas and the resulting ideologies were…