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In 2001, if you remember Kubrick in this famous, probably one of the most famous movies, if not the most famous movie of all time. I read it as a kind of an alchemical allegory.

I don't think it's about all the same things that other conspiracy people think necessarily,

but I do think there's a message, there's a story going on there that if we look at Arthur C.

Clark and what he was talking about, we get an insight into this idea of the

possibility of man's apotheosis that is becoming his own God through technology. In 2001, you

remember the monolith shows up, and that monolith is intended to be a future AI. It's kind of like

us in the future or the future deity that is ultimately some

kind of supercomputer, kind of stepping back and giving us indicators and sideposts as to human

evolution into the future and how we could basically become gods on our own.

Part of the reason that Arthur C. Clark had this idea was that he was in the circles of a lot of esotericists and occultists. He was hanging out with Alastair Crowley, the most famous Satanist

of the last century. And Clark was interested in putting that ideology into a science fiction.

In fact, most science fiction, you could argue, not all of it.

I mean, I think C.S. Lewis's Space Trilogy is a unique exception,

which is an explicitly Christian sci-fi story with volume three being about the aliens,

identified specifically as demons. And if you remember, in the third

of the space trilogy, C.S. Lewis put the Christian spirituality and ethos into that text by making

the demons want to depopulate all humanity. So C.S. Lewis is really one of the best science

fiction writers, even though everybody thinks about Narnia,

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