Freeeee. I just don't know whether bad guys keep us docile by telling us white hats are hard at work. Kind of like the policeman in The Big Lebowski, "they got us working in shifts."

Jokes aside, there's a book, The Unbearsble Likeness of Being. Communism was too much for the main character so he gave up his career as a surgeon and headed off to live as a rather poor farmer but independent. He didn't wait to see if anyone came to his rescue. That's what I'm up to.