Blaming “powerful people” is just a shorthand for the system itself. One can do what anyone who is serious about things like politics does: research power. Who

Blaming “powerful people” is just a shorthand for the system itself. One can do what anyone who is serious about things like politics does: research power. Who has it, how is it wielded. Who influences the discourses? Or who dictates it? Who plans societies? Who decides that America shall be dominated by four-line highways? That it shall have terrible mass transportation? That the megalopolis from Philadelphia to Boston shall have a terrible and slow railway? That its urban/suburban planning shall be such that people will have to commute to work by way of cars? Why are consumer products produced and imported from across the Pacific Ocean (in the case of the US)? One could research who planned the consumer capitalist economy. Who invented modern marketing. Why the economy needs “consumers”. ... one could research whether the “little people” actually have power. The Princeton study that concluded that 90% of the population have no influence on policy (no correlation between policy preference and actual policy) would say no. Alternatively one could stuff all that. Say that it's about an all-encompassing "mentality". That we're all equally to blame. That it's about Game Theory. I think your mentality is exactly what the system needs to perpetuate itself. You should feel good about that. -- Really I should know better than to vent my frustration by simply saying that I think about the world ending every day... How selfish of me.