come on people, evolve

Rating: Null/10 (27 September 2003)

Human evolution is the gradual awakening of consciousness. It's like slowly opening your eyes and realizing the true nature of things. There are three stages - pure instinctual existence, self-awareness, and finally, the understanding that we are all one consciousness, the same pulsing, vibrating energy that makes up everything in the universe. We're not supposed to be bound to these bodies, there's not supposed to be boundaries between life and death, but...it takes awhile to realize that. What's happened is that we've gotten stuck on stage 2, the self-awareness part. We've mutated the idea of being self-aware into the idea that one living thing is different or better than another living thing. This is incorrect. This thinking is directly responsible for all the pain and suffering in the world. We still believe that our families and close friends are somehow better than anbody else, and will step on anybody else to benefit us and them. This is where greed comes from. Some people say that humans will always be this way, and always have been this way, which is incorrect. Greed is simply an evolutionary quirk that comes from believing that we have progressed as far as we're going to progress, which most people, at every stage in history, erroneously think. At some point, something is going to have to happen that will allow the masses to understand that we are all one, something that is either so awe-inspiring or horrifying that all of our thinking about self-preservation, putting ourselves above others, etc., ends immediately. In one second. The end. On to the next phase. What it will be, I don't know. A massive terrorist attack? The appearence of a UFO? Who knows, but it will be something. I have a feeling that the amount of resistance to the idea will determine how peaceful the change will be. Because we're not meant to suffer. Really.
Kubrick intuitively understands this. Evolution is happening whether we want it to or not, and most of the time we don't want it to, because we stake our lives on belief systems (science, religion, patriotism, superiority of one's own family, etc.) that are good for nothing but creating an enemy, and that is completely backwards, but no matter - the monolith is coming anyway. The change is radical and completely new.

Human beings have this idea of space exploration as the final frontier, which I don't think is the case. Space is there so we can dream about it. It is meant to stimulate the imagination, because going inward, becoming pure imagination, is the true final frontier. The apes first imagined tools. Now we're imagining spaceships, but we're still not creatures of pure imagination. It's happening, but s-l-o-w-l-y. This is what happens at the end of 2001. We go through a prism of colors and patterns that suddenly transform themselves into landscapes. That's the way it goes, folks. The universe is made up of colors and patterns that we, having brains, organize into concrete things, but it's still pure imagination. We try to separate imagination from "reality", the conscious from the unconscious, life from death, ourselves from the Other, as if everything was already here when the first humans arrived, but really, we need to bring those things together and move out of dualistic thinking and us vs. them statements. Then the true nature of things will be revealed, and the mortal body, which we watch age and die in the film, will no longer matter. We will be one with the universe. We won't be stuck on Earth. We will have astral bodies. This is the end of 2001.
Just kidding, the movie sucked cause it didn't have a plot, and where was the CGI?