The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing.
The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was. The world around it will forget even faster.
You don't get over a loss like that; you learn to live with it.