It was originally a short story Clarke published in 1951 called "The Sentinel," which dealt with an alien artifact on the moon. Onwards and upwards, space-baby.Ģ001 has itself progressed swiftly, and in many forms. Human beings are transcending on schedule. 2001 replaces Darwin's blind evolution with a New Age faith in purpose. Progress is planned, and it is (according to the view of those creatures out there) good. Humans didn't just happen by chance some awesome super-intelligent space travelers gave them a boost up the evolutionary ladder, because "in all the galaxy, they had found nothing more precious than Mind." (37.5) Humans are getting smarter and better and further out, not by accident, but because someone else, out there, has decided that it will be good if they do. Clarke doesn't have a God in his book either-instead he has beneficent obelisks. That's why religious people often dislike Darwin his nature doesn't have much room for a God.Īrthur C. Charles Darwin said that human beings evolved by random variation the man-ape (or, hey, why not the woman-ape) with the slightly bigger brain was successful, and reproduced, and had little baby apes with bigger brains, and so forth. In other words, the universe is nutty-but it's a nuttiness with a plan. If 2001 is a nutshell, it's a nutshell that splits open and grows nut tree so big that its nut branches reach way out to the nut stars, where it finds giant black obelisks made of nuts by a superior nut power. 2001: A Space Odyssey is about progress, evolution, and man-apes leaping off the planet and turning into cosmic babies who spread peace and blow up nuclear bombs.
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