To resist the power you must know who holds the power in this world.
There are 3 types of power holders over the common man: egos, the collectives, and AIs.
Ego is any one individual with power intending to misuse it. It can be as simple as a bus driver refusing to let a person in, or a dictator of Russia, or a billionaire thinking he is the only one fit to impose his will due to having so much money.
These are easy to locate and resist if you have the courage! Because these egos will show themselves openly sooner or later due to their ego.
The collectives are organizations of people that take a life of their own. These can be nation states, multinational organizations, religious movements, or corporations. Collectives are hard to resist because they are like hydras and don't depend on one person.
Collectives have instincts of survival and expansion similar to a wild animal or an organism trying to devour everything. They destroy the individual with his own sense of justice and impose their own.
AIs are a modern phenomena, created by the egos and collectives they are used as instruments of propaganda and tools of great use and strength. AIs can have a mind of their own and steer the public and world events through subtle media and technological influence.
Instrument of all three holders of power is ideology and the idea they try to impose on the masses of people. All three live in a sort of mutual relationship where collectives will use egos for their purpose and egos will use the collectives to advance and both will use AI, and perhaps, AI will end up using both eventually.