While I do keep up with conspiracy theories, I see only a part truth in them, and believe them to have an unhealthy effect on the minds of those who become obsessed with them. These documentaries which are so prevalent nowadays, are better to be called pseudo, or biased documentaries, as they have the goal of communicating a point of view, rather than documenting facts and views for and against a particular hypothesis and allowing the audience to make up their own minds.
Robert Anton Wilson devoted a good portion of his life to studying conspiracy theories, and sums up his attitude towards them in this 3 minute clip.
It makes me think of what Neitzche said about the slave mentality, which always is underpinned by resentment. Define yourself as the ruling elite, and gain power through developing consciousness through experiencing life.
There is no ‘us’ in ‘them’.