Upper and upper middle class boomers *literally* only care about Numbers Go Up

Seeing the rising hysteria over the 4.84% decline in the S&P 500 today, especially among boomers, even though it takes the market to a level it hasn’t been since, uh, September of last year – is fascinating to watch. Under the theory of Stock Market Numbers Go Up, the bourgeoisie – basically upper and upper middle class boomers at this point, as they have most of the country’s wealth – pretend to care about other issues, but at the end of the day what they REALLY care about is when Stock Market Numbers Go Down. As long as Numbers Go Up, they are satiated, satisfied, regardless of any and every other factor of life; if Numbers Go Down, all hell breaks loose.

It is an interesting phenomenon, indicative of broader issues: the secularization and commodification of society so that every aspect of this reality is reduced to digits on a screen, combined with the whig belief of history-as-progress (from the benighted past to the glorious future), combined with the greedy Faustian spirit of ever-overcoming. Nothing else matters other than Numbers Go Up.

The elites were smart to keep Numbers Going Up during fraudvirus (except for the initial panic), because it satiated the bourgeoisie who literally don’t care about anything else.

However, looking at Japan’s example, our elites have deliberately created the greatest stock market bubble of all time; they may pierce the bubble now or in the future, cause tremendous panic, and then offer a pre-designed dialectical CBDC solution which will result in the greatest loss of freedom in human history – and the boomer scum will eagerly take it.