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it's friday the 13th of May 2022. I'm Jackson Bird today. A deep dive into the multiverse.

What it actually is, why it's become such a popular trope, what its popularity says about where we're at as a society right now, how it mirrors our relationship

to the internet, and why, despite some cynical reasons for its usage in film, the multiverse

might actually be exactly what we need right now.

Here is some cool stuff for your ride home.

Marvel's doing it. DC and Star Trek are doing it. Everything everywhere all at once is doing it.

A bunch of the best-selling novels of the last few years did it. Even the obsession with the metaverse seems to reek of it a bit. I am talking, of course, about the multiverse. It's not that the trope of the

multiverse in pop culture is anything new, but it is certainly having a moment right now. And if

you think about it for two seconds, it's not entirely surprising. For the last several years,

life has gotten exceptionally hard.

It's gotten more confusing.

Futures promised to the at least semi-privileged turned to smoke,

and the less-than-privileged went from playing life on hard mode to screaming for survival

while half the world insists their realities are fake news.

It makes perfect sense that so many of us,

as a society, would turn towards the idea that another timeline exists, a world where we can

imagine we're happier, life is easier, and whatever upheavals of the last several years that we

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