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

Start your 30 DAY FREE TRIAL now at https://mubi.com/likestoriesofold Help me make more videos! Support this channel: https://www.patreon.com/LikeStoriesofOld Leave a One-Time Donation: https://www.paypal.me/TomvanderLinden Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LikeStoriesofOld Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tom.vd.linden Twitter: https://twitter.com/Tom_LSOO 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: https://nebula.app/videos/lsoo-multiverses-nihilism-and-how-it-feels-to-be-alive-right-now Special Thanks to: Thomas Flight: https://www.youtube.com/c/ThomasFlight Michael Tucker (Lessons From the Screenplay): https://www.youtube.com/c/LessonsfromtheScreenplay 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: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cinema-of-meaning/id1611352831 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4n6zZZQjiKsLNfyldNAi8b Nebula: https://nebula.app/cinemaofmeaning Further Reading: Like Stories of Old – The Complete Reading List: https://kit.co/likestoriesofold/reading-list 10 Books that changed my life: https://kit.co/likestoriesofold/10-books-that-changed-my-life 10 More books that inspired my thinking: https://kit.co/likestoriesofold/10-more-books-that-inspired-my-thinking My Camera Gear: https://kit.co/likestoriesofold/my-travel-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@standard.tv Say hi: likestoriesofold@gmail.com 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: https://fm.pxf.io/c/3532571/1347628/16252 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 4.0-license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Artist: http://www.twinmusicom.org/