Unfortunately, majority of schools teach mainly crystallised knowledge and do not really encourage thinking outside of the box. Even on literature lessons at school we had been taught what opinion we should have about certain topic/character/concept. In a way, schools teach us to be puppets that are easy to control.

Sometimes while observing these processes in society you can't help but think that many people are almost terrified to stay alone with themselves and always need an additional distraction.

That actually makes sense, because otherwise it would be easier to create a program that would solve certain problems in the same way. Whereas, people should be able to have flexible mind: think critically and create various ways of solving problems. The problem is that in the vast majority of schools, students' focus has to be fixed on crystallised intelligence; the development of fluid intelligence doesn't seem to be as important as it should be, indeed. Many naively assume that development of the latter somehow happens automatically with not effort put in it.

I wonder if customers themselves actually believed that these silicon wristbands can cause some improvements in energy, flexibility, and balance, or did the customers already know and realise that these cannot have any real effect but it's just a "fun" thing to get? Same question about the people who support Flat Earth theory despite of huge amount of evidence that says otherwise. Do all these people sincerely believe in above mentioned things, or do they simply deceive themselves and deep inside realise that? Can this phenomenons' roots come from childhood when (almost) all of us had been fueled with countless fairytales, so that, consequently, now we have that internal desire to have something divine/magical in our lives, to be a part of something special?