The "I'd do it better!" Syndrome

I have a pride problem that, while I wasn't looking, skipped off and mated with my curiosity problem. Together they produced a spawn that has experienced a growth spurt in recent years: "I'd do it better" syndrome.

The disease presents as a sudden and chronic desire to engage in risky behavior in order to prove one's superiority over those who have tried said behavior and failed. Examples range from relatively low-risk, such as attempting to lift more weight/swim further/run faster, to high-risk, like engaging in illegal drugs or going to war. The prognosis is unknown, since no major long-term studies have been performed on sufferers.

My problem is fairly typical. I am often consumed with scorn for others who make mistakes, regardless of whether I would have done equally poorly. Seeing the decisions our president makes has lit a burning desire for me to make the job my own, regardless of the impossibility of my being so much as nominated. It stopped being funny when I realized while watching "Oz" that I was contemplating how I myself would fare in prison. Ha ha.

Now, I don't know if any of you suffer this affliction, but some of our favorite politicians are also exhibiting symptoms. Anyone who's ever fantasized about how Iraq will turn out better than Vietnam just because they're helping run the operations needs to be tested immediately, since their egos are swelling to the points where they roll over everything else like those adorable Katamari thingies. Only, it's people instead of junk that get in the way. Course, it's never just those in power who have this affliction. Any of those on the lower end of the power spectrum who decry political sex scandals really need to examine their own lives to see if they could, indeed, "do it better."

Please, help raise awareness of this dehibilitating condition before it mutates into a therapy-resistant form. Thank you for your time.