Surving alone is not enough in long term. You like to use the analogy that we are the prey and the elite are the hunters. Why cant we be the hunters, we surely outnumber them. Your suggesting that best way is to outsmart the hunter but continue being the prey. I feel that your falling for another of their traps if you view yourself as prey and your goal being to try to survive from being caught because they know they will catch you eventually if you keep running away. Why not search them out.
I have no problem with trying to improve and educate oneself, but im looking at society as a whole.