“The death of a social machine has never been heralded by a disharmony or a dysfunction; on the contrary, social machines make a habit of feeding on the contradictions they give rise to, on the crises they provoke, on the anxieties they engender, and on the infernal operations they regenerate. Capitalism has learned this, and has ceased doubting itself, while even socialists have abandoned belief in the possibility of capitalism's natural death by attrition. No one has ever died from contradictions. And the more it breaks down, the more it schizophrenizes, the better it works, the American way.” ― Felix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia Hey, if you're a fan of this film--no problem, we are still friends, and we love you. Be warned: this episode IS a critique. We're not saying this film is deep state propaganda, but we are saying this is a religious film, whose focus is not storytelling but metaphysics. The "breakdown of the multiverse" seems to be less of a hazard, and more of an integral part to how capitalism sustains itself. As Deleuze (almost) says above, "No one has ever died of a plot hole," but by golly we nearly did! And yet the plot holes seem to be the very point to this movie, launching the characters from one nonsensical detour to the next (curtailing any attempt to bring the fragmented story into a grounded unity), only for everything to end where it began, with a nuclear family running a business and happily paying their taxes. I remember a similar film, where a man named Morpheus smirks while describing "paying your taxes" as the hallmark of a mind that has been colonized by the Matrix.

As Zizek hath said, "It is easier to imagine the collapse of the multiverse than the end of capitalism." This is the Capitalist Realist film par excellance (RIP Mark Fisher). The multiverse concept is the great wet dream of cartesian statistical delusion. It's a vision of infinity without divinity; a sort of Stalinist capitalism of constant revolution but no real change. "The more it breaks down... the better it works." This is a film that reifies the status quo and celebrates a soulless cynicism. "Everything sucks, so you might as well be nice." When CERN takes over the world, the multiverse will be the state religion, and this film will be the bible.