Something about reading a person with no power feeling responsible for the practices of the upper echelons of power and control makes me feel sad. Like the propaganda worked or something. I feel like there's a parallel to the environmental accountability. I can't remember the name of the approach, but it's very much a thing that:

Where one has power and control in minority, instead of dealing with it, make it seem as though the wide majority without power, control or benefit of X is in fact responsible for X, and they should feel bad and take accountability for X. Even though the unfortunate majority had no say in how the runnings of it were decided.

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• accountability evasion
• Responsibility diffusion
• passing the buck.