Speculations on arch melon early life trajectory (with a couple of tangents)

Anyway, does the thought of “arch melon life histroy” currently seem of interest?

-Owl

No, but Ken keeps pestering me for it.
It’s like being married except instead of nagging me about chores he nags me about the holes in my old work.
No, we don’t need to remodel the bathroom, and no one needs to understand anything anterior to backswept in Koanic’s mohawk.

Man, that’s a throwback
Koanic’s Mohawk

Okay, enough stalling from me.
Arch melons are characterized by their absolute need to be in charge of something that’s as big as possible.
The degenerated forms (snake, owl, bigeye) are content with min-maxing freedom cost for status.
So they’ll insert themselves into existing hierarchies as high as possible without sacrificing too much of their freedom.
Arch melons, on the other hand, accept no long-term limits on their freedom.
So they will either take a shot at the king or go make their own city in the desert with blackjack and hookers.
In the short term they can be de facto conniving although their temperament and ability is such that it appears quite natural, innocent, and holistic.

From a very young age they’ll have the sense that they’re special and destined for big things. The original behelit verbiage applies more to arch melons than any other type:
“A superlatively talented adolescent, who seems to pass through impossible obstacles with ease, has been drifting lazily to the top of the current world order. But this wunderkind doesn’t understand who or what he is aside from wondering about why he’s different in a vague, directionless way.”
By temperament, arch melons are disinclined to engage in System 2-style reasoning.

Part of this is because having an IQ of 160-200 means you can do calculus-based chemistry with your System 1 animal instincts.
I have a working theory that this is related to the 30-point IQ communication gap.
Basically, the real communication gap comes from System 2 reliance/interests in higher-ability people coupled with simple inability in lower-ability people.
And I suspect people can use System 1 on anything 30 IQ points below their normal abilities.
So if I have an IQ of 140 and CNC programming requires an IQ of 110, I would figure out how to do it just by playing with the machine’s menu as if it were a toy.
(Whereas something like conditional probabilities require something like a 130 IQ.)

Anyway, moving back to arch melon life trajectories.
I’m looking for a quote and not finding it.

No worries. Recall the gist of it?

Yeah, it’s related to Drive by Daniel Pink.
The old idea is we’re driven by hedonic pleasure seeking and harm avoidance. The next idea was that we’re driven by dopamine-based reinforcement, not the pleasure and harm themselves. But there’s another type of drive which is purely talent based.
I.e. “Talent demands to be used.”
The quote goes something like “You can’t leave a human alone with a knotted rope without them trying to undo the knot. Problem solving is its own reward.”
There doesn’t need to be a flavored pellet at the other end of a maze. People will try to solve it because it’s there and they feel like they can.

Well, the early adolescent stage of arch melon ambition is like that.
“I’m special and the world is right there for the taking. Of course I’m destined to take it.”
This ambition gets supercharged by hormones during puberty, which cements the addiction.
The feeling of control is itself dopaminergic (ref. The Molecule of More).
Naturally, this leads to greater and greater overreaches until the melonhead hits the limit of their abilities and their ambition backfires. The behelit myth is, in this sense, comparable to an alcoholic “hitting rock bottom”.
In Berserk this occurs when Guts beats Griffith in a duel to win his own freedom, representing Griffith’s first setback in controlling events by pure will.
The narcissistic injury drives him to make a mistake which results in being tortured into a useless husk of a person.
Pretty good representation of “rock bottom” in my opinion.

That’s when Satan shows up with the Faustian bargain and dangles the world in front of him at the low, low price of his childish innocence (ref. https://aeolipera.wordpress.com/2018/04/09/innocent-character-death-as-innocence-lost/).
A good short-form version of this story is the Rem Saverem episode of Trigun.
So the end result of taking a shot at the king is becoming the Superman except out in the wilderness.
At this point they either set up as a barbarian king and build their own city following their original vision or take over the old city or both.
Feelings?

Shades of Genghis Khan
Immediate impression. Don’t know as of yet how accurate that sense is

Fair.

Anyway, makes sense so far

I don’t know the Genghis Khan story so that would be a good test case.

But not yet seeing how it maps to known/suspected arch melons
Goethe being our prime example
For some reason I view Alexander Hamilton as one, though I beleive he tracks more with our Noblid category
Yeah, next step is to identify arch melons and see how this fits

FTN did a deep dive on Hamilton which may interest you.
https://therightstuff.biz/2020/04/12/ftn-american-mephistopheles-hamilton-deep-dive/