Ordinary Time

In the course of my daily rummaging through Twitter I saw a strange take: GameStop didn’t matter because it wasn’t still everything. Because the stock wasn’t still in infinite bubble mode the story was over and because the story moved to a new phase that means it “didn’t matter” in the first place. This seems like an absolutely goofy take to me as I have talked with dozens of people personally involved in the story through their efforts to lift the stock to the moon.

Then it hit me — for some people now the only story that mattered was the one that could never end. It warmed up in Texas, the story must…