Golden Globe Nominations and The End of 2001
Kubrick imagined this year in a classic film. They had images of space stations, manned voyages to our nearest planets, mankind entering the next great step in our evolution and possibly finding our true creator(s) and our next great purpose as human beings.
How incredibly sad it is to see what we have ended up achieving in this year as it fades from our view. Instead of the next great step in our evolution, we have stepped back into the bloodshed and violence that has marred this world since the beginning of civilized man. There are people killing innocent people over religion and their beliefs. Instead of those luminous images of advanced space travel and intelligent human beings searching for our true purpose, the real images of 2001 are the death and destruction of airplanes crashing into buildings, possible global war erupting, lives in danger, people living in fear for when the next attack will occur. We have images of explosions and guns, not brilliant achievements in space.
Are we worthy of this planet? Imagine if there are other civilizations somewhere out there ... how insignificant we must look, and how sad we must look to others. If they could see us, if they could see our potential, how do you think they would look at us?
Just what if something else out there is waiting for us to prove our worth as human beings for us to evolve further? Can you imagine that possibility? Is this a last great test to see if we are worthy of this planet we inhabit? Who knows ... one thing is for sure, we did not live up to the vision of 2001 as so many had imagined it, not only in Kubrick's film, but also in so many writings and predictions. Do you think we ever will? I don't pretend to have all the answers, I am far from it ... but let me start with a small suggestion, and I have to steal a little bit from film director Kevin Smith, so forgive me, but he's brilliant on this point. Instead of having these beliefs which do nothing but divide people and cause others to think others are not worth living if they don't believe the same thing, let's replace those with ideas. You see, an idea can change, as it should. Beliefs can never be proven, and are inflexible. With all of
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