Memento is easily one of the best movies about “rationality as practiced by the individual” ever made. [...] When the “map” is a panoply of literal paper notes and photographs, and the “territory” is further removed from one’s lived experience than usual… it behooves one to take rationality, bias, motivated cognition, unquestioned assumptions, and information pretty damn seriously!
Wasn’t the main character’s attempt at “rationality as practiced by the individual” kind of quixotic though? I didn’t get the impression that the moral of the story was “you should be like this guy”. He would have been better off not trying any complicated systems and just trying to get help for his condition in a more standard way...
Wasn’t the main character’s attempt at “rationality as practiced by the individual” kind of quixotic though? I didn’t get the impression that the moral of the story was “you should be like this guy”. He would have been better off not trying any complicated systems and just trying to get help for his condition in a more standard way...
I said “one of the best movies about”, not “one of the best movies showing you how to”.