Paranormal field de-evolving!

When did aberrant behavior become an "acceptable alternative norm" in the paranormal field? If you're not in the field to help others (both sides of the divide), and/or yourself by fulfilling a need to know what happens after death, or to further expand and help with scientific explanations on the question of hauntings, or even as a cool hobby that you really enjoy while still taking it very seriously, then you're in the field for the wrong reasons. You can still have these goals (core beliefs) even if you're writing a book, or doing a TV show about the paranormal field, it just means you're being paid to do what you love. However, I feel a bubble is going to burst, that credibility is going to take a header, and that worries me, because of the folks looking to cash in sans any real belief in the field, the people just looking to make a quick buck or two, or to be a groupie of one making said buck. The more we commercialize the paranormal field, the closer it gets to that bursting point, and it is going to be due to a few disingenuous people. The light will shine on them, and the field will suffer as a consequence, and of course they will whine that they are being singled out, victimized, because that's what disingenuous people do. It is never about their behaviors, oh no, the whole world is wrong and they are right. Drama seems to forever follow them around, so is it them (yes) or the rest of the world? (no). The TV shows, so lets see, hmmmm, they seem to find something at EVERY location EVERY time? Anyone who has been in this field for any amount of real time knows that just doesn't happen. Does this further the field or hinder it? I believe it seriously hamstrings the field because newly minted investigators then think that they must find something every time too, after all, the TV shows do, right? So the dog barking becomes "Get Out," all orbs become spirits instead of dust, a photography issue such as camera shake, shutter stutter becomes spirit anomalies. "Open mindedness is great so long as it isn't so open our brains fall out." Unkown. Now, back to my bouncy castle...

Upcoming presidential election

Am I excited about the upcoming election and all the political posts people put here? No! Anyone who'd actually want the job of president ought to be looked at as a kook. Even at the current pay level it's a WAY under paid job for the responsibility, so what other reason is there to run for it? Prestige, sure, it's a very small number of people who have held the office, and who knows, maybe your one day your pic will be on a bill or a coin or name on an aircraft carrier. Live in a cool house, the White House? Yeah, definitely cool, but you don't live in the whole thing, and have guards and such around all the time, so you lose virtually all your privacy. The world's attention is on you? You're very powerful? Ah, there it is, the two reasons right there. On the former, if you need massive attention, the whole world watching you, I think that says a lot about your mentality. On the latter, you crave power, yeah, I think that says a lot about your mental make up too. So to recap, you get paid good money by average joe standards, crap money by CEO standards, great benefits, a good pension and benefits for the rest of your life, but even with all that you're a seriously underpaid egomaniac with your finger on a button that can end millions of lives, and about half your own countrymen will love you, about half with loathe you, and the rest of the world will try and make you bow in submission. No thank you. If you want that job, you're a kook. And no matter which candidate you post in favor of here, you gotta understand you're really not going to change anyone's mind.