Protest

On the nineteenth day of the neo-hippie Wall Street protest sit in march or whatever it is, a middle aged lady was interviewed on television, and it turns out  she was protesting the evident fact that she is strapped financially, and is concerned that she might never be able to retire.

Presumably she is blaming the system, or at least, considers society in general, or society's power structure, to be at least partly responsible for her plight.

That is a debatable point. On the other side of the debate, one might argue by asking a simple question: "who's fault is that?". And why do you have the idea that "retirement" is some kind of God given, inalienable right, rather than a luxury of a recently prosperous civilization?

To what extent is the world responsible for our woes, and to what extent are we?

Surely the world is enough to blame to justify many people gathering spontaneously to remind the rest of us of the world's blame.