Sorry, I wasn't trying to be offensive or indict the author. I also wasn't disagreeing with him.
I was only trying to add my lens of commentary. It wasn't to say that the author wasn't already taking this under advisement, but only to add my additional perspective.
Sorry if my diction led you to believe otherwise :(.
So, "I think it's easy to blame other people for problems, but the path to self-improvement is internalization" doesn't sound pedantic. It sounds worse.