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Stevie
2003 · Film · documentary · 145 min
Directed by Steve James
In 1995 Director Steve James (Hoop Dreams) returned to rural Southern Illinois to reconnect with Stevie Fielding, a troubled young boy he had been an 'Advocate Big Brother' to ten years earlier.
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If you think that watch was tough, go watch the documentary Stevie for even further exploration of the sheer out of sight out of mind realities that are too difficult as problems to bring up usually.
“Stevie” because it’s so real and even almost quits half-way through because the filmmaker had a personal relationship history with the subject. Set in one of the poorest parts of the United States. I saw it at the Angelika where I worked and warned everybody: this film will test and possibly scar your heart and emotions.
For non-US folks, it’s set in a place that you probably don’t imagine really exists here, but it’s a level of poverty and despair on par with any urban slum or containment area in its own right…
Yes, I do think that rationalism is intimately involved with self-doubt, and that many people are wholly unaware of the possibility that others with whom they disagree may be right rather than wrong. But I also think that there is such a thing as truth, and that it would be an error to believe that no one is stupid or acts irrationally.
But possibly I just don't understand your point. Are you arguing against the precepts of LessWrong, or against the case that Kenneth is making showing its limitations? Are you arguing that rationality is (or should be) synonymous with evolutionary fitness rather than truth? That believing things that are factually true can be irrational?
If you're up for watching depressing but incredibly insightful documentaries, I'd recommend "Stevie" (http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Stevie/60027209?trkid=2361637) as one that might change your mind on whether "no one is stupid". It's a brilliant movie of stupid people making their way in the world, with as much grace as they can manage. The scary part for me was that the self-explanations of the (medically) retarded characters vacillate between sounding simplistic and fully aware. I think the rational conclusion would be that it's awfully hard to tell which rung one is standing on, and whether others are above or below it. But I don't think it would be rational to conclude that "everyone's pretty much the same".