I have noticed that not only do some people
not get what they wanted, hoped for or expected, but they may also get exactly
what they didn’t want.
One example is when people who want a specific
type of audience, follower or reader attract exactly the wrong sort of person.
By coincidence, I came across two examples of
this phenomenon just a few hours apart, while I was looking into something
else.
I read this about L. Ron Hubbard:
“Hubbard wanted to attract explorers and men
of the world. Instead, he ended up with science fiction fans.”
I read this about Charles Fort:
“Fort’s horizons were boundless and in his
day he lamented that ‘the majority of people attracted are the ones we don’t
want; Spiritualists, Fundamentalists’.”
Very amusing, and rather sad.
It reminds me of an army recruitment centre I
often passed; their window display attracted the attention of lots of children
and old ladies, but I never saw any young men looking at it!
