This is something I'm fascinated by; did this type of financial cult always exist, or is it a new thing? Like, people investing in the South Sea Company had some very silly ideas about it, but they didn't believe it was going to bring around a fundamental restructuring of society or anything. The first manifestation of "if you invest in this, you will become part of the ruling elite in a pseudo-apocalyptic new world order" I can think of is Bitcoin (remember the citadels); the meme stocks seem to have taken that absence of crypto-nonsense and dropped the crypto bit.