But I don't think guilt and shame are necessarily a bad thing, they are necessary to some degree, just not in such an excessive way.

hmmm... I don't agree with that in terms of my definition.
I do not equate guilt and shame with responsibility, if that was what you meant?

Let me explain myself:
Rather, a feeling of guilt for me is the rejection of seeking answers. Those who say "I am to blame for someone else being miserable" are bypassing responsibility (because in fact, following this logic, they must also blame others for being miserable themselves). For if I take it literally that feeling responsible means recognising one's own limits, the limits of what I attribute to myself and my actions and omissions, it tends to lead me to recognise the limitation to which I am inevitably subject. Feeling guilty in this respect is a weakness of character, an over-emphasis on one's own importance.

Whoever says, "I am to blame for the fact that you have become ill, an alcoholic, a drug addict, poor or even ill with a "virus", is thereby artificially overstating oneself. Such an exaggeration of what one blames oneself for can lead to the transfer of the personal experience of an inadequacy from those directly affected to "the many". Ergo, to the large communities, ergo to the whole world.

For those who are trapped in guilt, an acquittal will be of no use if they do not set out to free themselves from this guilt.

I prefer to leave the term "guilt" in its negatively perceived meaning and contrast it with the positive term "responsibility". From my personal perception, I experience people driven by feelings of guilt as being overly interested in fulfilling their duties, in exhausting themselves mentally as well as physically, in order to reduce this guilt that they believe they have to work off. The damage done by such personalities is difficult to measure, but it is perceptible. From this feeds the current do-gooderism, an over-fulfilment of a moral inferiority complex.

However, insofar as guilt and shame are accepted as effective correctors between people in the field of this energy, one could assume that these feelings lead to the improvement of human relationships. Someone who believes in the necessary moral judgement established by guilt may accept this judgement as just. And he may take those who do not believe such as stupid, weak and soft.

... But if we observe that in the history of the past and the present, guilt has never really been admitted by the perpetrator of an evil deed, and especially in the field of politics, these admissions of guilt do not take place; rather, people seem to be aware of no guilt at all, and if they are, then the usual mechanisms of suppression and distraction are at work. If someone is then convicted, he only admits his guilt under the duress of a public condemnation. But here the dimension and the strength of the denial of responsibility becomes apparent.

In this energetic field of circulating irresponsibility, there are the players who can no longer be addressed because they keep their names and addresses secret. At the end of an era of extreme suffering, no one wants to have been the one who denied responsibility. History then covers up such things and the reappraisal of what happened gets lost in it. Until the next event.

... I could say a lot more but I leave it here.

I would appreciate your view on this.