I'm gonna say it is a unwitting contemporary permutation of seemingly secularized Gnostic Christianity's Demiurge concept/belief system amplified by digital culture- which actually isn't really secularized when extrapolated out.
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(in Gnosticism and other theological systems) a heavenly being, subordinate to the Supreme Being, that is considered to be the controller of the material world and antagonistic to all that is purely spiritual.
The Demiurge had created us in his image. The Demiurge is as much a part of us, as we our a part of him. Now some Gnostics will argue that the Demiurge is pure evil, and some will argue that he is simply ignorant. Both groups will agree that the Demiurge is flawed. If man eats from the tree of knowledge (Wisdom, or Sophia) man will "be like the gods". That is, with Sophia guiding us, man will know the true God, (Logos).
http://gnostic-christian.blogspot.com/2 ... nesis.html
Basically, humanities origin is based on a conspiracy hiding the truth from them, and until they "eat of the tree of knowledge" and discover who is really running things, they won't be able to know the true, real supreme being God. As early software this is something that obviously spoke and still speaks to people's concepts of the world and its ultimate order, even if most of us goes unsaid and unthought.
To whit, most conspiracy theorists (if you are reading this, that means you) may not immediately display a ultimate divine conspiracy hierarchy in their thinking, but if pressed, or once they articulate their view of the world fully, come to the nub that at the top there are lizard men, dark forces, satanic worshiping elites, a military-industrial-entertainment-education complex in league with dark arts or sciences, etc. practicing some type of low or high occult-scientific-magic that serves/is the Demiurge. Often the divine hierarchy will be scientific'd up: the "dark controlling force", and such, will push Old Scratch through the Science Salad Shooter and repackaged and sell it as a more rational unified malicious complete controlling force; like base primal instincts, old reptilian brain wiring or impulses, toxic masculinity, the will to power, the ptb, elite families, sociopath/psychopath tendencies, Big Oil, the 1%, Rockefeller's, and on and on. All bad and creepy crawly sinister things, yes, but not soley responsible for all the evil in the world, let alone that which dwells in men and women's hearts, also things that can be somewhat controlled, ignored, minimized, bypassed- but not with magical thinking. For it was belief in the Demiurge which helped elect Trump, even though Trump is the most Demiurgical eva.
Basically, "Demiurge" is the all powerful "material/materialistic" malicious force which is responsible for the evil in the world and perpetuates it, but is subordinate to the real and it would seem much more benevolent "spiritual" "Supreme Being" or original creator of the natural order. People who are ignorant to Demiurge's reach and continuing influence don't fully understand how the world works, and must be enlightened. It's like Carter is permanently ensconced at Camp Kennedy and Kissinger is left running everything unbeknownst to all.
And as a Demiurge's work is never done, and got to stay currrent, the second string created demiurge-demigod has completely rebelled against the creator god and has embarked on its own dark creation and alternative post "intelligent redesign" of life. A la David in Alien Covenant.
To whit it all comes down to a black or white, all or nothing, fight against the continuing evil and hidden imprisonment of humanity to Demiurge (whatever ye shall call it) and the attempt to enlighten those to who and what is really running the world (it is so, so, so evil your friends, co-workers and family will never believe how depraved!!!) and make an end run around it to deliver oneself and the world into the welcoming arms of a probably Noam Chomsky-Naomi Klein-Alex Jones vengeful looking (but so kind!) Buddha, depending on how you take your psychic coffee, benevolent Supreme Being.
What we actually know about Christian gnosticism is limited. All of the writings and scriptures from these groups are ancient and suspected to be incomplete. The most important discovery of Gnostic scriptures was in Nag Hammadi, Egypt in 1945. There were found "Twelve books bound in leather…plus eight pages of a thirteenth book. The pages of these books are papyrus and contain fifty two Coptic texts, some of which appear more than once…so this collection numbers forty five writings, ten of which are severely damaged while the rest are reasonably legible."
According to one Gnostic myth the shaping of the material world was the result of Sophia, who was often decribed as an emanation of eternal light, an "immaculate mirror of God's activity," and as "the spouse of the Lord." Through her desire to "know the Father", she was cast out of the Pleroma (the gnostic heaven) and her desire gave birth to the God who created the material world. Although she was eventually restored to the Pleroma, bits of her divinity remain in the material world.
The inferior God created by Sophia's desire, also referred to as the Demiurge, is the Creator God of the Old Testament. Due to his inferiority, he is not seen as good but rather an evil, angry, violent God. It is the fault of this God that the world is in the mess that it is, and due to the fact that he created it, the world is evil. The higher transcendent God is not a creator of the material world, and instead is a nurturer of the spiritual. The only hope for humankind, while locked in this evil shell of a body is to spiritually transcend this world and deny the body.
Gnostics believed that in order to acquire salvation one must possess a certain knowledge, or gnosis, which must be delivered to a person by a messenger of light. However, to receive this knowledge, one must be trying to reach beyond the evil, dark, material, physical earth and body toward that of the good, light, immaterial, and spiritual worlds. The indwelling spark must be awakened from its terrestrial slumber by the saving knowledge that comes "from without." Jesus is one of the most fundamental "awakeners" of this knowledge. Therefore, although Gnostics, like other Christians, find salvation through the messages of Jesus, Gnostics seek salvation not from sin but from "the ignorance of which sin is a consequence." The gnostics believe that the evil creator God and his angels cause this ignorance. If one receives gnosis during this lifetime- a true realization of the spirit-body dichotomy and the true destiny of the soul, then at death, when the body releases the divine spark, the soul may be free of the evil world. On the other hand, if this realization is not reached, then the ignorant soul, when released from the body will be sent back by the Demiurge into the evil painful world.
http://www2.kenyon.edu/Depts/Religion/P ... ticism.htm