On the one hand, I encourage you to learn about the world, and powerful forces in it, 'how things work' - short of that, you can only guess at those things and it leaves you more vulnerable to being lied to and manipulated, to whoever can 'sound good' and make any credible argument based on your ignorance.
On the others, there is that whole world of 'conspiracy theories' which is almost entirely garbage.
There was a period in the 1970's of this sort of paranoia, from a movie about the phone company trying to secretly rule the world to 'Soylent Green'. The general paranoia has existed a lot longer - see the famous commentary titles 'The Paranoid Style in American Politics'.
And there are plenty of 'real' evildoings and conspiracies to learn about instead - for example, there is no world domination by the wealthy Rothschilds, but learn about the Koch brothers' (owners of the second biggest private US company) war for decades to drive American political culture to a radical right-wing position of Libertarianism, currently seeing huge success under the 'tea party' movement they support (even while the sad members might rant against abuses by billionares yet voting for their minions).
There are all kinds of myths and they often take decades for people to revise views on. How long did it take for any sympathetic view of Native Americans to become acceptable among US citizens after decades of slaughter? How long was homosexuality viewed as a character flaw similar to being a traitor to the country, who many thought it justified jailing? How long is it taking us to change our view on the war on drugs to recognize the high cost of the drug cartels funded by billions every year?
You need to learn how to both recognizes the 'pure garbage' and to learn what is wrongly dismissed.
When Bush 43 was elected, he brought in basically an existing group of people called the 'Neo-conservative' group to lead American foreign policy. You could not be aware of the agenda and history of the group, and just assume each was nothing more than a fine American trying to serve his country and they all agreed on so much for legitimate reasons, or you could be aware of, say, the 'Project for a new American century' which helpfully published a manifesto about their plans and dreams for the US to further its role as basically 'ruler of the world', with such advice as starting wars now and then just to remind the world of our power. Of course, even with that issue, it helps to understand their actual situation, and not a paranoid left-wing version that goes too far.
When you see 'Rothschild', 'illuminati', and similar things, run the other way (but better yet, research the issues and understand why they're wrong).
Include a diet of information with sources such as
www.commondreams.org, which I think will help you sort a lot out.
In short, most of the 'vast conspiracies' are false - yet there are absolutely powerful forces, based on 'interests' that control much. For example, you want to understand more of what happened in the 2008 financial crash? Try Nomi Prins' book "It takes a pillage" - she's a former Goldman Sachs person who explains a lot of the problem.
On the one hand, the 2008 crash served to take trillions of dollars, but only return it to the very wealthy - almost 100% of the recovery has gone to the top 1% - resulting in a 'redistribution of wealth' to the most wealthy of those trillions. On the other, I don't think there was any conspiracy planning for that to happen - rather just a lot of failures allowing short term greed to run wild and endanger the system.
Want to be aware of the radical right-wing economic plan the Neocons had for Iraq, which they failed miserably in implementing, and why they had it? Read the history of Milton Friedman - close economic adviser to Reagan and the right wing - and his getting to use Chile as an experiment under Pinochet and the disastrous results that informed these people.