In the scene entitled “The Dawn of Man” (see video below) one can see the behavior of the monkeys confronting each other before and after the Monolith appears.
Before, they were merely posturing and jumping around trying to scare each other off.
After the Monolith appears the monkeys discover that with bones of a dead animal they now have the implements of war.
Thus, the Monolith can be seen as educating the monkeys in the dual use of tools that can be used as implements of war, or peace. Duality is key.
In this context, the Monolith stands for the “Evolutionary Impulse.” This is clearly evidenced when the monkey throws the bone into the air and then the scene cuts to the future – one supposes millions of years into the future, according to Darwinian evolutionary theory – and one sees a similar, bone-shaped spacecraft flying in the air linking the archaic past with the technological present.
In Howard Bloom’s “The Lucifer Principle” the evolutionary impulse and guided evolution are illustrated as necessary to human progress and achievement. Thus, evil is necessary for good.
Hegel’s thesis that “Conflict creates history and a predetermined conflict creates a predetermined history” would seem to bear this out when it comes to the aims of the Globalist elite and shaping a transhumanist, and ultimately post-human future.
Thus in the beginning of the movie when it shows the words “The Dawn of Man” across the movie screen as a prelude to the appearance of the Monolith, one can surmise that Lucifer – called the Son of the Dawn in the Bible – is also the Son of the Dawn of Man, given the supposed leap from monkey to man via evolution.
In a Luciferian Twist of inversion Globalists believe Lucifer is God or the demiurge (the creative/destructive, impersonal, evolutionary force of the universe?). That man is a soulless product of the ascent from primordial slime, not of the descent from celestial forms, thus having a spirit.
Was Kubrick’s evolutionary vision correct?
Well, consider this…
If you look at the smart phone in your hand, you will note that when turned off, it oddly resembles the Monolith.
As an “evolutionary” leap in technology it puts the almost the entire library of man – written, audible and visual – at our fingertips, almost anywhere in the world.
Quite an evolutionary achievement indeed…for good or for evil, since the monolith is both educating and isolating us; opening us up and dumbing us down…