Whose fault is this mess anyway?

I got some message from a fellow Iranian concerning what has been happening in Iran all these years. I understand that as an individual we are in the middle of every thing and we can not look at events in Iran in an impartial way, but let's try. We have been living in an autocratic system for such a long time ( more than 2500 years )and it is kind of natural if we have got some related behaviors in our culture. As a whole the result of the revolution was that we replaced a bad regime with another one which was essentially worse ( it could be better and our intent was to get a democratic system). But If we look at that from another viewpoint we may see it as the first partially successful attempt for change of a people ( at least for a couple of months!) that has been loving freedom and living under oppression for centuries. Have we ever been governing ourselves before? Has the Iranians' opinion had any official value ever in this country before? Look ! We just behave and treat our kids and family at home the very same way the authorities treat us in the society. Like it or not our culture and collective behavior have been affected by all these years of living under absolute autocratic rulers. It is not fault of any single person as a leader of revolution or any specific polytical movement or I don't know what. In my opinion , in our case whatever has happened is the fault of Iranian nation as a whole. The average Iranian has missed the target. We have gone stray. Until we get big in number and push forward nothing is going to change and history may repeat itself again and again. However I think it may not be a waste of time if we don't let it go. Just lets don't try to forget anything, if we had worked on our long term memory we could have saved some precious time.