Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" Was About Eating

An untold number of essays and even theses have been written about the purported meaning of "2001: A Space Odyssey". However, the answer is simple and obvious. It's a movie about eating. Hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional extraterrestrial beings visit Earth, leaving large black monoliths that guide the development of humanity as driven by, and shown in the movie by, humanity's meals. They guide…