Angry Is Okay

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Yeah, there's team sports/games and group projects that have cooperation, but there is still a heavy tilt towards competitiveness. This heavy handedness on competition from birth to adulthood is subconsciously wrecking people's ability to behave properly in social situations that are not competitive, and they end up creating hostility in social circumstances that require cooperation for everyone to do well.

Example: Highway driving and asshole drivers. I am increasingly convinced that road rage is a result of subconscious competitive behavior, drivers who are unaware that they're treating driving like a race and not travel. Refusing to let people merge, tailgaiting, aggressive driving, trying to 'punish' other drivers, and other types of asshole driving might make sense if you're in a race, but it's absolutely nonsensical when you remember that it's not a race. You're just people trying to get from one place to another, and everyone can do that if you cooperate with other drivers. Being an asshole makes travel more difficult for everyone - including you.