I'm not sure it means shame on us...
I guess I was speaking collectively. As a species, or as a people, are we not ultimately responsible for the direction we move in?
I get tired of folks [not referring to you] making fatalistic remarks about how things are going to hell in a handbasket; they seem to imply that the commentator is above the fray, gifted with acute powers of critical insight but somehow absolved of responsibility.
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem."
