A failure to communicate?

That Cool Hand Luke reference above applies to a couple of fellows, in UFOland I consider pals or mates.
 
They both want to make a mark in the UFO community but also in the normal world outside the fringe.
 
Yet, they sometimes (often?) choose to ignore opportunities that could give their ideas or books a wider hearing or notice.
 
WABC contacted me for access to one of the guys for an interview, on air, about a piece he (my pal) wrote.
 
My pal passed on it, too busy with “interviews” for UFO podcasts that have few listeners and nothing in the way of cachet; that is, the podcasts are virtually unknown in the outer world where importance and relevance resides.
 
And a mate of mine who writes lots of books received interest from a New York TIMES Pulitzer winner friend of mine, after he (the TIMES reporter) read a thing I wrote about one of my mate’s books.
 
I passed the info on in a posting at Facebook and mentioned it here also, a while back.
 
Yet, my pal/mate got caught up in an unknown and unimportant gathering in Michigan and apparently missed the chance to be read about in the NYT.
 
Why do these blokes shrug off what they seem to thrive for – fame, notoriety, and relevance as researchers or authors?
 
It’s a failure to really communicate.
 
They seem inclined to remain in the shadow of the UFO hoi polloi, where no one resides who has class or intellectual acumen. It’s the hillbilly segment of ufology.
 
I don’t get it.
 
RR