Multiverses, Nihilism, and How it Feels to be Alive Right Now

Start your 30 DAY FREE TRIAL now at Help me make more videos! Support this channel: Leave a One-Time Donation: Facebook: Instagram: Twitter: About this video essay: An analysis of the metaphorical meanings of multiverse stories, and what they reflect about the burdens of modern existence. Watch this video ad-free on Nebula: Special Thanks to: Thomas Flight: Michael Tucker (Lessons From the Screenplay): Chapters: 0:00 Prologue 0:16 A Brief Intro to Quantum Mechanics 0:56 Marvel at the Multiverse 1:53 That Funny Feeling 3:23 Accidentally Meaningful 4:07 Post-Modern Miscommunication 5:58 Rick and Morty are here too 7:25 Sucked Into the Void 10:57 Zugzwang 12:19 Wubbalubbadubdub 13:13 Ironic Detachment is for Suckers 13:57 Marvel Can’t Keep a Secret 14:45 Black Pills and Member Berries 15:50 Alone with Infinite Selves 17:04 The Burden of Being 18:56 Cosmic Meaning 22:08 Hope in the Dark 27:04 Take a Voyage Listen to my podcast, Cinema of Meaning: iTunes: Spotify: Nebula: Further Reading: Like Stories of Old – The Complete Reading List: 10 Books that changed my life: 10 More books that inspired my thinking: My Camera Gear: Media included: Avengers Endgame; Bo Burnham’s Inside; Chernobyl; Devs; Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness; Don’t Look Up; Easy Rider; Eight Grade; Everything Everywhere All At Once; Fleabag; In the Heat of the Night; Into the Wild; It’s a Wonderful Life; Jurassic World Dominion; Loki; Mr. Nobody; Nomadland; Rick and Morty; Spider-Man Into the Spider Verse; Spider-Man; Spider-Man No Way Home; The Amazing Spider-Man 2; The Farewell; The Graduate; The Matrix 4; The Tree of Life; The Worst Person in the World; Voyage of Time Business inquiries: lsoo@ Say hi: likestoriesofold@ Music: Will Patterson – Between the Lines Madron – Without Illusion Slow Meadow – Upstream Dream Dexter Britain – Ocean Breeze Dexter Britain – Raising Will Patterson – Under the Streets Slow Meadow – Palemote Take your films to the next level with music from Musicbed. Sign up for a free account to listen for yourself: Additional Music: Linus Johnsson – Isolation The David Roy Collective – Enchanted Lands Fjodor – Vulnerable Piotr Hummel – Spectacular Marxist Arrow by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution . Artist: