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.