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About this video essay:
An analysis of the metaphorical meanings of multiverse stories, and what they reflect about the burdens of modern existence.

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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

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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

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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

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Additional Music:
Linus Johnsson – Isolation
The David Roy Collective – Enchanted Lands
Fjodor – Vulnerable
Piotr Hummel – Spectacular

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