Resentment and revolution share parents: they are to blame. A childhood, wrongly managed. A structure, made by someone(s), cascading its consequence. A leader, probably incompetent, definitely malicious.
Shout at the gods or the fates, but those complaints appear to fall on deaf or preset ears.
One may look in the proverbial mirror and find mistake sources, apparently correctible. Who, then, is the best choice of villain?
Really, the notion of cause and effect is at fault, along with causers and effecters. The idea that things happen because they are made to happen. Yes, we are moralizers and values-creatures. But we are also, perhaps primarily, analysts. We have been schooled to gather information and deliver the correct answer.
And the big question is, where did these problems come from? The framing of the question requires answers and, particularly, the American cultural context requires the answers be people. People more powerful than gods and more consequential than the mere analyst.
Tolstoy only took the full text of War and Peace to build up to his epilogical conclusion that the great man theory of history is trash. We require the full transcript of social media, contemporary literature, and the news in all its forms and come up with no such concise responses.
Grapes sour for a lot of reasons. It’s the expectation of sweetness and the disappointed bitterness on tasting that makes a person and a culture sour.