The Legendary Dragon Alephwyr, named Alephwyr, BA

Yes, but what I'm saying is that probably 90% of what happens at a poker table happens by accident, yet none of the people involved seem to know that, and life goes on anyway.

I'm not sure what you think this proves

It applies without loss of generality to life. Everyone thinks that what they experience is a result of the merits of what they do, but for the vast majority of people this is false. The vast majority of people live by something like a demonic form of grace.

yes, and?

"Power" is more or less just the bundle of accidents you were born into. A lion's "power" and a gazelle's "power" are equivalent to their facticity, which is not intentional strategy so much as a series of accidents unfolding in context. Breaking free of context is very hard.

It is not even fair to call what most people operate by "knowledge". A Napoleon or a Jeff Bezos might have knowledge. A rock rolling down a hill has no knowledge.

You can't call ignorance a privation on knowledge because ignorance is a mechanism that defines the whole creature and thus excludes knowledge

Thomas Aquinas literally addresses precisely this in his Principles of Nature (difference between per se and per accidens), but, if you forgive my seeming condescension, a better place to start would be an introduction to Thomism, perhaps Edward Feser