The lazy and the typical

I know, I know, with a million other problems and the whole world apparently plunging into catastrophe The Muppets movie doesn’t matter much. I’ve never been the kind of person to buy much into such arguments. Truth is almost everyone doesn’t have much say in every, much less any, global scale type problem and worrying about them constantly to the point of inducing a nervous twitch and becoming a preachy dolt does nothing for anyone. The Muppets is very important in the sense that it’s just another stupid attempt at youth indoctrination.

The story to the new Muppets movie is that oil is found on the land below the abandoned Muppet Theater and oilman Tex Richman plans to destroy the theater to drill. Some new Muppet mobilizes with his human brother, the tall dude from ‘How I Met Your Mother’, to stage a Muppet Telethon with reunited Muppets to raise the money needed to ‘save’ the theater. It’s as simple and annoying as it is eye-rolling. An insult to the intelligence and no doubt, if popular, could prove to be instrumental in the development of the worldview of many young people.

How hilarious, the evil oilman, Tex Richman! Because he’s from Texas and he’s a Rich Man! And he drills! That the theater isn’t in use apparently means nothing and that the Muppets themselves are all over the world doing other things doesn’t matter. Why not utilize some simple formulaic good guy/bad guy caricature? This kind of nonsense is the exact reason why most “Occupy” protestors couldn’t explain what it is that Wall Street does or what it takes to drill and then refine oil into usable products. We’ll know who subscribes to such mindlessness when the ‘Republicans for Tex Richman’ bumper stickers start to pop up on Subaru Station Wagons in the Whole Foods parking lot.

While it’s true that the ever elusive peace in the Middle East and the world debt crisis, not to mention many other priorities, are of much more importance; The Muppets movie’s attempted brain washing and other attempts by the entertainment industry counts too and there’s plenty of space to call them out.