YOU are to blame is right!

"you" and "we" are to blame indeed!! it's up to us to bring back culture to "new disney city"

you can say the people lurking behind the curtain are to blame, the "shadow government", etc.

but what if these concepts are symbols or archetypes of the madness within us all? maybe if people stopped seeking distractions to escape the painful truth that the world, which includes every single one of us is truly messed up, dysfunctional, out of balance, and in a great deal of pain (despite all of the smiling faces!)

it is said that the definition of apocolypse means to reveal; to show the truth (not having to do with all of the 'doomsday'/end of the world propoganda) maybe this means that everyone's shadow self and the worlds shadow self (both being one really) are surfacing as we speak, therefore the madness that normally churns out of sight and mind, has no choice but to "boil over" into our everyday reality, hence the madness cannot be denied nor ignored any longer.

ekart tolle in "a new earth" said that in order to rid ourselves of madness, first we must see the madness within ourselves, that to see it is to begin to transcend it, go beyond it---he further argues that the "ego" is not to blame, rather our "false ego" is to blame...which can be seen as extreme vanity, insecurity, jealousy, envy, too much pride....that these take possession over all of us at times, like a "psychic parasite" or c.g. jung referred to it as the "psychic alien factor" yet when this takes place we should be careful not to identify ourselves with these things, "they are not YOU!" but that although all of us fight to tame these things, we get trapped in the identification of them...and the less we identify with false ego possession, the more we are able to WAKE UP!

perhaps, your true self is found within your soul, spirit, pure awareness and Being...