best them

If you suggest "Nicholas Cage...best or worse", then you tempt others to choose a side within a conflict of reason (best vs worse). A conflict others are fighting each other on your behalf...this little trick positions yourself above others, by others willingly choosing to positioned themselves under you.

That's how besting them works and how a chosen few gain a protected position among many.

we have to become

A suggested inversion of coming into being one...