[DiogenesLamp]

Here are a couple of links for you. See if you can figure out what they have in common with your position.

http://www.damninteresting.com/up-in-the-air/

http://www.vdare.com/articles/john-derbyshire-cecil-the-lion-and-the-goodwhite-badwhite-cold-civil-war

[Tau Food]

I can't help but notice that some people seem to find it easy to succeed in this world and some people seem to find it easy to fail. When I read an article like the one this Derbyshire guy wrote, I wonder: should we consider people who fail to be victims because they fail, or do these people fail at least in part because they convince themselves that they are victims.

Does it help to view other people as either being with us or against us, as being either one of them or one of us, goodwrites or badwhites? Does it simplify things? Does it ease our pain? Does it explain or excuse our failures?

What role does attitude play in success and failure, happiness and misery? Is it somebody else's duty to gift us with success or happiness? Can anyone else gift us with these things?

I know that Derbyshire was born in England. Later, he looked around the world and applied for American citizenship. Like everyone else, I complain from time to time about this or that, but I know that Derbyshire made the right choice - the USA is the best place to be. We're very lucky.