... On the eponymous "George Lucas effect"
That is, when you become so successful that nobody cares tell you no, so your creative output suffers due to the lack of common sense input around you. "No George, a Steppin-fetchit analogue does not belong in your film"
I thought the "George Lucas Effect" was his ex-wife, Marcia.
Go to YouTube and get an education.
Crap! I'm in one of those timelines.
"age-ian porn" but I just can't find it.
Ugh.. you wrote a lot of words, and I didn't really want to read all that, so I asked my friend, whom I call CG3P0, and he summarized it and said the answer to your question is Yes.
I'll take "no" with a spread of 5 points.
Have you stopped beating your spouse yet?
Does that effect exist either? If what you think is happening is analogous to something that doesn't actually happen, mightn't that first thought be wrong as well?
This is why I was careful to use the word metaphor instead of analogy, oh careless one.
Does this help?
Don't ask me. Ask the GP.
It's not an actual way to boil a frog. The frogs sense the heat change and leave.
It's used as a metaphor for humans getting used to change in something that will hurt them. If we picked some other human activity as an analogy, it would likely offend someone, wouldn't be as funny as comparing us to frogs, and some asshat would (in a "good faith" effort) stretch the analogy to the point that it failed to work.
Gradually boiling a frog may be a metaphor for human behavior but in real life nobody can boil frogs like that.
"It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it." -- Henry Allen
