Neither, if you take them as absolutes. You are shaped, cornered, and poisoned by the system, but the system also needs your little daily acts of obedience, numbness, and cowardice to stay alive. The honest answer is uglier: the problem is a rigged setup that built a version of “you” perfectly calibrated to keep it running, and your “personal responsibility” is whether you keep playing that role on autopilot or start quietly sabotaging it in ways that actually cost you something.