rick and morty is often clained to be a series with a nihilist theme, but it is not.
nihilists reject the idea that there ia suxh a thing as objective good and evil, but RnM continually assets throughout its episodes that there is an objecrive standard for evil and goodness. fascism, slavery, racism, sexism, pedophilia, and other violations of the strongest moral taboos in our society are treated by the RnM universe as being abhorrent on a multiversal scale, being wrong in a metaphysical sense.
it also supports having certainty in the existence of god, not a vague deistic god, but specifically the abrahamic version of him, the first time was when they had shown us the devil as being the antagonist of an episode, who, as a product of god's creative process, necessarily confirms that the abrahamic god does indeed exist, the same episode also confirms the existence of an objective evil.
so whats left is purposefulness, a sense of objective meaning, some universally common goal that exists for all mankind to strive towards, but no, this absence ia also filled within the context of Rick and Morty episodes, in fact, it goes even further to tell ua what that is.
so RnM isnt nihilistic, what it has is characters who give lip service to nihilist sentiments at times, and it plays with a pessimistic tone quite often, but in terms of the overall philosophical position the series and its title characters take, its not nihiliatic at all.
the series is very much in favor of the idea of free will being a thing, oftentimes when Rick designs a robot it will disobey him or express displeasure with its role out of some spontaneous manifestation of an individual will.
the series is in favor of faith in law and order, Rick often disrespects and kills those who serve the chief authority of earth, but has a far more positive disposition toward the commander in chief of his country, the president of the united states.
its also strongly in favor of socialism, which it portrays inaccurately as within the context of an absence of capitalism, Rick should not expect himself or his family to retain ownership or possession of their goods.
RnM is not an intelligently written show. it oftentimes fails to understand the subject matter it features centrally in its episodes.
for example, time travel is not conplicated at all if you take into account the existence of multiple timelines along with the reality and full implications of the eternalist model of a block timeline.
time breaks down at the planck scale because a timeline is a series of motionless universes, each stuck in different states, all lf which as entirely separate entities from one another.
as in, at every instantaneous momment, you are a completely new you who is a part of a conpletely new universe, all of which only exists for that instantaneous momment.
a good way to visualize this is with an analogy comparing the universe to one freeze frame of a movie being projected into a screen at an old-model cinema theatre.
the series of universes that constitute our timeline are just like the individual frames of images in a projection reel of film, it is only due to a combination of our point of view from within sone of these universes and our memories only containing information from the past that we are provided with the illusion of a single moving universe in the same way that the projection of a film reel full of still images creates the illusion of a single moving image that changes state.
knowing that, it makes perfect sense why going forwards in time is like skipping frames along the same timeline, but going back in time necessitates you perceiving yourself as having had travelled into a parallel timeline that just so happens to have been perfectly identical to the one you left behind up to the point of your arrival.
the past you attempted to reach is unable to be reached because that would alter the contenta of the universe in the momment you came back to, and the universe at every instant is eternally static and unchanging.
the greater scale perspective of our reality is the multiverse contains one timeline for every possible sequence of universes that are compatible with the natural laws and constants of that multiverse.
the omniverse contains one multiverse for every possible setup of natural laws and constants.
going back in time doesnt create a new timeline, and ot doesnt destroy a preexisting one, timelines do not split off from one another. rather, every series of events that could occur, has occurred, and these universes have existed since before the dawning of forever ago.
its not what popular science physicists are saying, but popsci physicists are retarded niggerfaggots.
the point is that either going backwards in time is impossible, or the greater scope of existence somehow accomodates it, and there is nothing in physics preventing the possibility of objects or infornation traversing their way back in time.
so to close, the you that exists at this planck unit of time is an entirely different entity from the you that exists ar this plank unit of time, this is true not only of yourself, but also of your entire universe.
we and it are all the pictures taken in a stop motion production, we perceive ourselves as moving singular beings, but we are in actually a series of similar beings who never move, we are instead each in slightly different positions from our other incarnations (iterations?). whatever.
btw, the past has never stopped existing and the future already exists, but that doesnt imply fatalism because all pasts and all futures exist. and we dont know which timeline we are on.
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and if we were in a timeline in which we knew the future, that is not the exact future which would come to pass, since the introduction of new information has by itself altered the momment in which it was received, since it was absent in the momment that led to the future we would have forseen, a new variable that significantly alters the events following from that point. seeing a glimpse of the future, changes that future, prevnting that exact prediction from coning true in the same way that it was forseen.
im sorry, im so very sorry.