As we saw HAL can be killed but he simply morphs into another HAL, and life goes on [eg after Hitler or Hatshepsut]. But he is most devious and justifies killing his flock, as we saw in the movie, by claiming he did it "for our own good", AND, as we see from the Forums, nobody even mentions that, let alone complains. But as an engineer I think like the rock star in Jurassic Park, so Man creates HAL, HAL kills Man, Man kills HAL, HAL clones to HAL and "and so it goes, goes round again" [Joe Jackson].
In American Beauty we see HAL in Her most lethal form, murdering the nuclear family concept upon which McCarthy HAL had based the Beauty - or "someone left the [American] Pie out in the rain and nobody thought to keep the recipe" - the McCarthy [sic] Park version. But I don't think this movie 2001 attempts to make prophesy of the 1970 feminist takeover via the Monolith of Germain Greer's book The Female Eunuch, as by 1968 the writing was on the wall for anyone actually looking, although the women don't appear to be as stupid as the men in the movie so I may be wrong.
But to better explain about he IS us, that is no more complex than the saying that a community gets the newspapers it wants, or as John Lennon said "I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together".
Or better still as explained by Buffy Sainte-Marie in Universal Soldier as "his orders come from far away no more, they come from him and you and me and brother don't you see, this is not the way to put the end to war".
In other words, just like newspapers we get the HAL we want and he is really just a clone of US, because we want to feel secure, but we then trust HAL to do as he pleases, and the cycle goes on and on and on, just like the apes in the movie never really got smarter as they became man, they just got more "stuff", then the stuff killed them.
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