If this isn't me...
Evil Kermit is a meme series featuring a screenshot from the 2014 movie Muppets: Most Wanted. In it, Kermit comes face to face with his cloaked nemesis, Constantine, who instructs him to perform various lazy, selfish, or otherwise evil acts. True to form, Twitter users took the meme and ran with, making it the unofficial official meme of November 2016. Yes, friends, even Kermit has a dark side, proving that even self-aware puppets are capable of being corrupted by the forces of evil.
Much like poor Kermit, we humans are also easily swayed by the temptation of "bad behavior". Not a person alive can claim that they've never succumbed to their id, psychologist Sigmund Freud's conception of base human instincts that all are born with. However, the id isn't necessarily a bad thing; in certain situations, it overcomes our learned social behaviors to our advantage, something helpful if you're ever stranded in the wilderness, for example. In actuality, the majority of our less-than-desirable qualities are learned as we grow.
Learned behavior is extraordinarily useful because it lets you go through your day without mentally exhausting yourself; for example, every time you go to open a door, or answer the phone, or even drive your car, you don't spend mental energy thinking about how to move your muscles, or your eyes, or formulate every word that comes out of your mouth. You've learned those behaviors so well that they've become automatic. Unfortunately, learned behavior isn't always a good thing. It can also lead to the development of bad habits that are impossible to break; nail biting is my own struggle, though eating disorders, drug and alcohol addictions, and other negative behaviors.
Accurate depiction of college life.
These learned behaviors work together with various psychological forces, including the rationale of our good deeds balancing out bad ones, cognitive dissonance, and anti-authority compulsions to produce the "bad deeds" we're all guilty of committing. And after we've done them, we formulate clever little lies to get out of feeling guilty; how many times have you justified cheating because "everyone was doing it?"
We're all guilty of doing bad things from time to time, but hopefully we'll follow Kermit's example and keep them fairly mundane. I mean, it's not like skipping class will hurt our grades, right?
Right?
