Description:

You see life as a roller coaster ride that inevitably has both ups and downs. You may believe that you are powerless to stop the ride, but are beginning to realize that by altering your emotional state, you have the power to change the theme of the ride. You also likely believe that that ride will inevitably end. Few complain about the ride, most are grateful that they got to go on the ride at all. 

Those that have no desire to learn about how the ride works are like the Hypnos archetype, they are asleep. To them, ignorance is bliss. Those that do have a desire to learn about how the ride works are often overwhelmed by the horror that they discover. As a result, they are likely to represent the Momos archetype because they often blame those that they deem evil, unwittingly spawning the very evil they were attempting to extinguish.

Few have a desire to learn how the ride works, most want to just enjoy what little they can from their ride, without having to face the challenge of changing the ride. Those that desire to change the ride must stop seeing life as a roller coaster and merge with the scenery the roller coaster travels through. Only then will the theme of the ride finally change for those that are unable to change the theme of their ride themselves.    

Traits:

Receptive, Popular, Sociable, Relatable, Articulate, Understanding, Lucid, Persuasive 

Conscience:

In a representative democracy, the media is appointed as the nation’s conscience. The media is supposed to report to the citizenry what their public representatives are doing: if the media doesn’t accurately and objectively report the news, the public will lose their ability to distinguish real from fake. Without a fair and fast method to hold the media accountable, there’s no way to guarantee that the represented officials will be held accountable. The only power the citizenry has to hold the media accountable are boycotts. Boycotting is a dangerous tactic because it is likely to backfire, be copied and misused, or worst of all be fabricated for subterfuge. Boycotts foster conflict instead of promoting harmony. Instead of boycotting media companies, the citizenry can create and support independent media. 

Variations:

Rule by the excellent:

• Favoring meritocracy over proportional representation. Often creates a culture that rewards perfection, charm, beauty, talent, excellence, mastery, innovation, and exploration. Likely to spawn a culture that weaponizes judgement, guilt, and shame in an attempt to make others comply with their arbitrary standards and demands.

Rule by imperfect:

• Favoring proportional representation over meritocracy. Often creates a culture that rewards authenticity, imperfection, ugliness, grit, shamelessness, tribalism, uniformity, and empowerment. Likely spawns a culture that portrays self-harming behavior as cool. If others call them out for being a negative influence, they are likely to become defensive, double-down, and lash out on those that are questioning their constructed self-concept.

Susceptibility:

May be easily misguided by those that use word salad, circular logic, and other rhetorical devices because they are often poor at deductive reasoning. Those that know how to elicit from them what they want and feed it back to them often manipulate them to do their bidding.

According to sociologist Roger Michell’s iron law of oligarchy, representative democracies are likely to deteriorate into an oligarchy, a corrupt form of aristocracy. Representatives that are elected can be bought out and corrupted by foreign interests — making the nation a host containing competing forces all trying to overtake the host from within. If citizens complain that the representatives do not proportionally represent the group, some citizens may develop a disliking towards those that excel and attempt to shift from a nation ruled by the excellent into a nation ruled by the imperfect. In regimes that abide by rule of the imperfect, the excellent don’t disappear, they manage to find a way to be the most excellent at being imperfect. The citizenry can also lose faith in their representatives if they continually fail to act on their word. If the presumption of innocence is replaced with the presumption of guilt; if the maxim “innocent until proven guilty” is replaced with the maxim “guilty until proven innocent”; if the right to a fair trial is replaced with a trial by the media; the government will likely deteriorate into an oligarchy, then an ochlocracy, and then further descend into a kleptocracy.   

Implications: 

• Explanation for existence: Likely believes that the universe was randomly created, that the universe has a singular beginning, or that the universe spontaneously emerged. Most likely believes that the first cause is unprovable. 

• Conceptual model of the universe/cosmos: Most likely believes in a finite & inanimate universe.

• Justification for life’s suffering: Most likely believes that life’s suffering is unjustified.

• Sensorium elicitation process: More likely to occupy the role of the responder than the initiator. Places an emphasis on the material over the abstract. Claims that they prefer upwards causality over downwards causality, but they most likely favor downwards causality in secret.

• Thought structuring process: Likely believes that society must be built from the bottom-up (upwards causality). Since they often have more faith in others than in themselves, they may find themselves building their thoughts on the foundation of their role models. Excellent at channeling and emulating others.

• Emotion formulation process: Memories, whether real or fabricated, play a vital role in your emotional formulation process. Typically they are not in touch with the symbolic and are instead in touch with the literal. They likely feel the need to repress their emotions in fear that if they don’t control them, they will be controlled by them.   

• Reputation: Is known either as conscientious and professional, or uptight and stiff, depending on how rebellious the character judging them is. 

• Post-Life Hypothesis: Typically believes that there is no post-life, and that consciousness is extinguished during death. 

Top careers: 

Ambassador, Doctor, Banker, Lawyer, Secretary, Politician, Orator, Apprentice

Famous people: 

Walter Cronkite, Warren Buffet, Cicero, John Locke, Charlie Munger, Thomas Jefferson, Antonin Scalia, Marc Antony, Alan Greenspan, Alan Dershowitz, Ruth Bader Ginsberg