Sasquatch
People these days will do anything to make money, and I feel like that is how the "Bigfoot" scheme started. Once people figured that other people would be willing to spend money to chase the and find the ever elusive monster known as Bigfoot, they exploited that interest in order to make more money. Even though I really do not believe that Bigfoot exists, I have no problem with people trying to make money off this Bigfoot phenomenon. One of the great aspects of capitalism and American business owners is that if they find a niche in the market, they are free to try and make money any way they want.
As I said, I think this whole Bigfoot phenomenon started because people found a way to make money by exploiting peoples desire to find this monster. Not only do I think this phenomenon was a marketing schemed aimed at making money but I also think this Bigfoot phenomenon has persisted because people want to believe in Bigfoot. People want to believe in the Bigfoot phenomenon because it gives them an escape. What I mean by that is, given the fact that the world is so stressful given the mountain of bills that people have to pay, violent wars, and chaos in the Middle east, people need to find an outlet to temporarily escape from this slightly depressing reality. If that escape for some people, means that they want to go believe in, go hunting and track down a Sasquatch, then that's fine by me.
There's a tagline that psychics, and other people who sell such things, employ: for entertainment purposes only. But part of the entertainment value of these services is the other implication that they are not only for entertainment purposes. I think that's why we can't shake the sense that there is something vaguely dishonest about these, even if it is not necessarily insidious. It is sort of like alcohol--something we know is not great for us, but we wouldn't like to see banned or prohibited outright. And both offer relief from wars and chaos, as you say.
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