To be clear, I don't think I will prevail over the craven and corrupt folks here. There are simply too many of them, and they have the belief that if they don't stick together in a social manner, everything will fall apart. The civilization gives material prosperity to a healthy preponderance through the (actually very robust) mechanisms of postwar industrial prosperity -- but it isn't a meritocracy, it's a party, and you will have to be liked in order to be allowed in the door. So a good number of worthwhile folks outside the prosperous preponderance will find themselves in the cold, and given how interlinked and data-driven everything is these days (employment,, housing, etc.), will likely find themselves unable to achieve the basic necessities of life.
But the manner in which I will prevail, although not over them, has to do with them. I prevail by the vindication of ideas and true understanding.
It is wiser to think of the the ship of philosophy as always afloat, but always needing, not, indeed, the impetus of any individual thinker, but the added sense of direction which the individual can give by some further, however slight, interpretation of the world about.
(Dewey)