http://faerye.net/tag/jar-jar+effectPosts tagged with "jar-jar effect" - Faerye Net2008-08-01T10:34:31+00:00Felicity Shouldershttp://faerye.net/http://faerye.net/post/the-jar-jar-effectThe Jar-Jar Effect2008-08-01T10:34:31+00:002008-08-01T10:34:31+00:00<p>I thought of a new law of argument. You know, like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law" target="links">Godwin’s Law</a> or <a href="http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/RPG_Lexica:STU">Skarka’s Law</a>.</p>
<p>“No aesthetic discussion can continue productively once Jar-Jar Binks is mentioned.”</p>
<p>Only problem is, I don’t want to affix my name to it. I don’t want my name associated with Jar-Jar!</p>
<p>So I’ve decided to make it more general. Now I maintain that there is a Jar-Jar effect. It’s when you’re having a constructive conversation or debate, and one person brings in a subject from which the other recoils so viscerally that the entire conversation is destroyed. As if that person cannot bear to be engaged with Jar-Jar (or Nazis, or George W. Bush) even in an abstract conversation. Jar-Jar effect. Tell your friends!</p>