Absolutely, I agree. That diffusion of culpability is what makes social ills like this so damned difficult to change. I would say, though, that identifying a

Absolutely, I agree. That diffusion of culpability is what makes social ills like this so damned difficult to change. I would say, though, that identifying a villain is immensely helpful in mobilizing opposition, even if the villain is more caricature than reality. Hitler is a great example; no one cared that the reality of the Nazi state was a diffuse and dreary bureaucracy of Eichmanns and Speers. It was Hitler's face that went on war posters.