Once you begin to see that it's people's inability to look at their hidden feelings of inferiority that is responsible for both blame and defensiveness in the face of blame, you begin to see the universality of application this tool of understanding has for unlocking so many of the mysteries of human behavior. Blame always appears to have a punitive or put down aspect to it. We don't want to accept blame for things because of the negative consequences, putdown or punishment. The fear of these consequences is enormous, powerful enough to produce identities of denial, false selves. But the false self is a schizophrenic fragment of our total identity, the happy face we put on rage. The person who feels put down, all of us, is looking for the opportunity to share the putdowns by putting down somebody else himself, to find self justification and revenge, to pay back, to cooperate in the sheep-fold fiction of a shared communal doctrine of consensual conformity.
You find this particularly among people tightly wrapped in moral bindings based of an externalized source of fear like religions that use the devil to keep people in line. Their traumatic fear of the devil causes them to see him everywhere. They have a powerful need to blame all aspects of life they attribute to his doing.
So we have the blamers, the ones that want you to blame yourself for every thing that's wrong. They call it taking responsibility for yourself, but they never take responsibility for the unrecognized insanity that drives them. No way. They are trying to separate themselves from blame by drawing the distinction between themselves and others precisely by blaming them. And so it goes.
So we have a world full of people with their fingers out pointing at each other. It's your fault, no it's your fault, no it's your fault. You're on my side right. How about you? You're on my side right? You're either with us or against us. Completely insane.
So we can see now that blame and the avoidance of blame are one and the same thing, the inward hidden feeling of guilt. It is an inescapable condition. There is no cure. Right. Well there won't be until the time comes when people begin to consider the possibility that criticism can be more than an attempt to blame.
In order to solve a problem you first have to be able to admit you have one. If you are too self important to admit to one, or the object of criticism is too sacred to your false identity to allow you to admit to criticism than you are frozen forever with your faults. This is so easy to see with people you can see through, like alcoholics and drug addicts that have millions of ways to deflect their problem, but so difficult to see when it applies to the self. It's all known in the Bible, the log in your eye and the beam in the neighbors or how ever it goes.
The question is, 'Is there something about American foreign policy that caused 9/11 and if so what?'. Is it something good that we need to keep going with regardless or do we need to change. There is no blame here, only honest self analysis. The knee jerk assumption that it is impossible to have fault and that self reflection is the same as being a traitor is easy to understand when you begin to see that those who make that claim are already traitors to themselves.