" The only power that is of any consequence is the ability to inflict death amd destruction..."

Again, you fail to grasp the facts. Absent creation, there is nothing to destroy. The ability to create is actual power. This failure to ascertain the reality of the universe is the basis for the rest of your misunderstanding.

" There are those who rule and those who serve."

Particularly this. All rule, and all serve. Neither the abject captive tormented to gain obedience fails to rule, nor the overlord commanding the torturer fails to serve, even if only themselves.

Until you grasp the factual reality extant, we will be unable to attain to rational debate on these matters. Can I force you to accept facts?

No - and this proves my point. You are free to serve whom you will. You always will be, and nothing can change that fact. When thugs with tanks can no longer ferry armed men to your door to persuade you to comply because you have built and are willing to use nominal security to prevent their approach, they will be useless to their masters.

All that prevents that security is your failure to effect it.

That's on you, and everyone, today. Most people have no idea they can be free in this way right now, but no censorship can keep this a secret forever. Everyone will choose, and choosing to be chattel will create evolutionary forces that favor those choosing freedom. Physics is the law, and the universe suffers no criminals to escape it's decrees.

The feeble wishes of sociopaths will become handicaps, and the builders of civilization will create a free world. Nothing can change this but the extinction of humanity. The power to serve yourself by creating a prosperous future is in your hands.

You will do you. Prosperity or poverty is yours to choose.

You are free.