I think that is a part of it- we know better, and we would never, ever in good faith suggest to anyone that they try some of his silliness.

I'm not going to say someone like the Jackass crew shouldn't be on the air becuase they do stupid, dangerous stunts. But I am going to call them tasteless idiots. At least they say that their stunts are dangerous, they have a nice big warning. (And if MvW doesn't have disclaimer on it, I'd be shocked. But it is probably teeny tiny little print that flashes quickly, becuase I don't remember it.)

If I could turn this hobby into a living, I would probably try to, but realistically I can't. As an professional geek, I see sloppy, badly written programs, inefficent hardware, and things that are just junk. I know I wouldn't admit to helping design a lot of the tech products on the market today. I have little respect for the designers of this equipment becuase making something good isn't much harder or more expensive. I get frustrated with them because they make conscious decision NOT to follow anything that comes close to what I could consider good practices nor do I think they take pride in what they do.

Bear styles himself as a survival professional, but instead he's showing something that isn't much higher than Survival Jackass. What I've seen of him, he goes out of his way to do things that hardest and most risky way possible, and he doesn't say "this is not how you should do this, you should do XYZ, but I'm going to do it the stupid way anyway". These are not best practices, this is not dealing with your customer in good faith, these are worst practices. Maybe he has little enough self worth that putting out a sideshow, and signing his name on it, is something he can live with. In which case, I could feel sorry for him. But he relishes it, he knows he has a cash cow and he's going to milk it hard and to ghenna with everything else. So instead, I'm embarrassed by him, as he is a public face to modern survival in popular culture.