It's Okay To Be A Loser

    There's an old saying that it's not enough to succeed, but your friends also must fail. That's obviously true even though people don't want to admit it. Maybe it doesn't need to be completely black and white. Nobody wants to be extremely successful with a bunch of deadbeat friends, but come on who doesn't want to do the best out of their group? 

    This unhinged competitiveness is where nearly every problem in the world comes from. On a global scale this is manifested in nationalism: when countries need to have power over their allies. America is the greatest country in the world according to nearly everyone in America, but is it? In every aspect we're pretty average compared to our allies except one. The US military dwarfs any other and it's the sole reason we still have power over the world. We can't be the loser out of our friend group. If Britain lands an awesome new job- we build more submarines. France gets into a PhD program and donates to charity- we send troops to the Middle East. 

    It's the reason losers cling to the one thing they've ever done or been good at- aka the peaked in high school guy. Star quarterback, solid B- grades, and the girlfriend that doesn't seem to have a personality. Life can't get better than that and it doesn't, they become nothing and they don't care. Everyone just needs to know they're good at something that way at the very least they can view themselves as beating their friends even if they're the best darts player in the bar. So, just compliment people when they do their one thing because they care about it even if you don't. 

    I would change the expression to say you have to be better than your friends at anything. You don't have to conquer the world you just gotta be the guy that runs the fantasy football league. America just needs the best military.