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Richard M Doerflinger's avatar

About the midterms I can do little but wait to be devastated, elated, or bored. So let me turn to the more interesting soul-sickness of the Marvel Comic Universe, on full display in No Way Home and other recent films obsessed with "the multiverse." Spencer Klavan has a fascinating article on this in the Summer 2022 issue of the Claremont Review of Books. It seems we live in a universe where nothing ultimately matters, where no act has lasting consequences for the hero or the universe as a whole, because there's always another hero and another universe where it's different. Tony Stark died, so what? We've got a million of him. Klavan also discusses the way some physicists have leaped to the multiverse idea to avoid the embarrassing fact that our universe is governed by a number of physical constants that are apparently independent of one another, each of which would make life (or matter as we know it) impossible if it were a tiny bit different. If there are infinite universes, we just happen to be in the one that makes possible the existence of people who talk about universes. One problem is that this idea is at least as unprovable, at least as much a leap of faith, as belief in an intelligent Creator.

universehttps://claremontreviewofbooks.com/worlds-without-end/

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Your own scenarios point out that there isn't a truly equal three-way in potential results. The polls have missed Red voters more than Blue.

Also, "National DeSantisism", what a ridiculous concept. DeSantis is simply doing his own spin on Trump's America First platform, and it's Trump who is successfully reshaping the GOP to be more Populist than Neocon.

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