“ History may not repeat, but it does  rhyme ”    -   Mark Twain        Every   day, revolutionary  ideas of all sorts are t hought of and  executed, vaccines are made, treatments to once  i ncurable diseases are invented, spaceships with complex and advanced technology are sent to space. We surely have countless  pieces of  evidence to prove what an evolved society w e  have become .  Although material aspects seem to evolve, human behavior doesn’t.  In this case, behavior being  a pattern and not psychological.   My goal here is to show you that even if mankind seems to be on a higher intellectual level, their behavior is still the same  as it was  hundred years ago, or since the beginning of times.    

Who would have thought  our world would flip upside down in a fraction of a second?  The world stopped as the pandemic g rew . No more jobs, no more school, no more  social  interactions. Our daily habits  were forced to be put on hold  or  simply   vanish,  as we a ll entered the darkest time of our lives: quarantine. This state of isolation was unknown for  so many  people.  We all thought it would be the easy way out of this pandemic. “Only two weeks !”.   In order to save lives, we had to give up healthy habits from our own lives. Consequently, affecting our mental health and much more.     

    “So David triumphed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone; without a sword in his hand he struck down the Philistine and killed him.” (Bible Gateway 1 Samuel 17) The consummate story of David & Goliath has often been used for exploitation and during the recent months, we have seen a new iteration of this myth with Retail & Wall Street. Through the fog of ignorance, misinformation, and conspiracy, I would like, to the best of my ability, to try explain how most claims about the situation, at least during the hype period of January, have been probably fully or partially false while giving a take on the whole situation. But first, let’s set the stage: GameStop is a North American brick and mortar video game retailer that has been struggling for the past few years, having not turned an annual profit since 2018. [1]  The price of the stock has been on the decline, having gone from 33.8 USD to less than 6 dollars USD between the start of 2015 and September 2019. [2]  At ar