The Beginning of a New Culture
There is a moment in Stanley Kubrick’s film “2001” that is unforgettable. A being, half-man and half-ape, discovers a mysterious black monolith. After touching the structure, something has changed in that being. He/it, after struggling to hunt for so long, has discovered the idea of “tools.” Picking up the weathered bone of a decayed animal, the beast begins to see the bone in a whole new light. It is now an instrument of survival, a mechanism of destruction, which will help continue the survival of the many beasts. The final shots of the “dawn of man” sequence show the beast throwing the bone into the air, the vision of the bone being replaced with that of a spaceship. The intent of the writer is only to use the film as an example of a much larger theme. How is man to learn and evolve? How does he expand his boundaries? The process of learning through contact is vital to the discovery process. How is a group of people able to progress, to explore without making contact with other races, cultures, and environments? “2001” may be a fictitious film, but the ideas it conveys are quite valuable to the study of human progression. Contact is a broad term, but here, it is used as a term that represents interaction and learn
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Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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