This clearly shouldn't be my first response, but I just find myself so remarkably annoyed not by the fact that my field is being co-opted by the worst people, but that it is being co-opted by the dumbest people, just the thickest, most arrogantly superficial 'trousered apes' imaginable.

"but bad things keep happening to him" you may note that they do in every sea story and also that this has not stopped people from going to sea for the last two and a half millennia