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So out of Covid, an apocalypse out of many we will experience, came the meme stocks craze which then became part of culture and is now being touted as a new paradigm of load-bearing cultural acceptance of a new capitalist order. "Bullish" means nothing outside of the context of meme stocks. Yes it's a term used in finance that predates 2020, but that's not how it's being used or how Gen Z relates to the term. It's that they've grown up in this meme stock internet culture where everyone is into crypto, NFTs, gambling, and other scams. To be bullish is to put your money into these things, knowing you will likely lose it, but gain internet fame and clout for proceeding anyways. It's being cynically optimistic in the face of almost certain loss. A guy in the 80s saying he was bullish on a stock meant that the thought it would increase in value over time. A 20 year old being bullish on RoganCoin in 2026 is a very different thing and has little to do with actual financials.
If I were a little smarter there are definitely some dialectical things happening here between structural failures, punctuated equilibrium and cultural changes that end up forming a new structural base.