Who's fault is it anyway? On activisme and responsibility

How to understand that Western society values individual criticism and yet lacks any defined forms of political activism? The question is to broad. But let's put it this way. There is some much anger, frustration, critique, hate, disgust, irritation towards the society that exists and yet we feel incompetent to act for change. How does this work? Somehow it seems we have developped our own set of counter measures to dampen our anger. One of these is the notion that everything is so blended, connected and complex that we cannot possible judge an isolated case. The complexity kills focus. A simple example is the frustration we feel when we try to complain to a company or the state (this is the same). In these bureaucracies no-one is responsible and certainly not the one who is answering the phone. We sense that the person that handles the complaint couldnt care less about the company. The anonymous voice is not responsible. The person is just following the rules. It's unclear who or what is responsible for making the rules. The rules are just there. Here is complexity without any hope of unravelling the complex.
Another counter measure is to assure ourselves that this is just the way it IS, the Weltlauf, the way of the world, and there is no sense in being angry at something which is beyond change. This neutralization of anger resembles the way we excuse a cat when he kills a bird. The cat cannot help himself. The same goes for a company: they are obliged to fire people because of market conditions. It's not their fault. It's just the way things work.
A very effective way to cut the link between anger and action is the principle of respect. We are obliged to respect the free opinions of others. This respect immediately turns freedom into unfreedom, since our own opinions are because of this principle only valuable for ourselves. Our opinions and anger becomes solipsistic. Imposing our anger by means of action on others is disrespectful. This mechanism neutralizes any activism beforehand. The same holds true for the democratic principle. Your anger only counts when it adds up with other peoples anger.
In this constellation anger and critique are neutralised by ourselves in order to preserve ourselves. This explains the lack of political activism. It also explains the very fashionable complete denial of society in the respectable focus on 'our own happiness' in this magical world. This succesful denial of the world around us is for sure an example of pure magic.

To do: make lists of instances of anger as a form of resistance. Analyse the neutralisation tactics for anger.