Don't worry James, the "information war" is not even close to being over. The establishment loves this Hegalian dialectic. They break their own rules through proxies to push their agenda in the exact direction they choose.
Some examples:
The deliberate releasing of hacker software to justify more cyber security programs.
The Patriot Act
Ezra Pound and his stooge, Eustice Mullins. They started the whole "end the fed" psy-op for the etsablishment.
Revolution is super profitable. The more "woke warriors", the more funding to tamp them down. Kids today are born into virtual reality.
A solution would require laws to ban any attempt to disturb an oasis that does not exist yet. They operate on generational paradigms and the public operates on a daily one.
You speak the truth. Most people can't even remember what they ate the day before for breakfast, so when they learn that an organized cabal has ruled humanity for hundreds (potentially thousands) of years their first instinct is to reject the idea in order to protect their pitiful sense of self-love. After all, from the normies' perspective, "n-n-nobody can plan that far ahead!"
But I disagree with you about Ezra Pound. Having read his writings and being a fan of his poetry, I think the guy genuinely wanted to improve things. Sure, the system he proposed (Douglas' Social Credit) would spell doom when combined with the Internet of Things, but he obviously couldn't predict that technology would have advanced this much.
Mullins, on the other hand, yeah, he's a known CIA plant.