I see what you mean, but I think there actually is a bit more to this. To me, reading this made me consider how individuals internalize responsibilities for collective ills. I think we as humans are very limited in our ability to know our own contributions to these mass endeavors in fuckery. We've created systems too complex for individuals to understand, and then when they try to reckon with their complicity they end up internalizing guilt for either way more than their individual contributions, or if they can't face up to that they end up rejecting their complicity entirely.
I guess I just think that the horrors of capitalism and imperialism create evils on a scale that is hard for our brains to grapple with.
Not really, no. I think it is compatible with what PKMII suggested. Main character syndrome is apt here.
I agree with Uncle Iroh when he says
So to help bring these people out of this counter-productive shame spiral, it might help more to consider the roots of their shame rather than leaving it at the succinct Main Character Syndrome.