There is some good perspective in what you wrote and also good advice. I have watched with great curiosity from a bit of distance those who think the magic tricks and words and incantations will work. They dont. Or if they do it is with no reproducible dependability.

What you stated about raw naked power is on point. What you believe and how you form your logic matters for you, yourself, and also for others you love and care about around you, or those acting in good faith. But to tyrants who would deign to own you and rule you? Entirely inconsequential.

Your advice to carve out what freedom and liberty you can while engaging in as few of the tyrants rigged games as possible seems one of the paths those of like mindset to ours may wish to at least explore taking amongst the others available. But to each their own.