What is the hacking world turning into?
Why can't anyone do "proper" research?
Why is google like a demon to many?
Why is the internet producing so many skids?
This seems to be a huge issue. I Really do not get why people are to lazy to research this art. Yet they want to be l33t hackers. It just doesn't work that way. It takes years to master this skill(and you still won't know everything), and it isn't something that is from outer space, the concepts are not discovered by aliens. Anyone can properly understand the concept.
But using the book knowledge you learn is another ball game, you have to be made for it. It has to be a passion. Anyone here should be able to agree with this.
I think it largely comes down to ethos, and a genuine desire to learn, or the lack thereof. From my perspective, hacking is all about the journey. It's the struggle of trying to understand something in depth, or trying to get something to work, and the whole process of the undertaking that ultimately leads to the end result. For skiddies, it's all about the end result, the process doesn't matter at all. If a button that says "EZ" can be clicked and a desired end result can be achieved, that's all that matters.
I think all humans generally prefer things to be easy rather than hard, but a certain percentage of humans just have a genuine curiosity. A deep yearning for understanding how the world works, their place in it, and how they can change it for the better, whether it be subjectively or objectively. Skiddies do not have such personalities or characters.
Whether the amount of people with a lack of that greater yearning has increased vastly because of how technology has advanced exponentially in the last century or not is up for debate. I think it's very true that among the general population, the vast majority of people just want things to work, and don't care how it works, just that it does. And this doesn't just apply to hacking, it applies to pretty much everything. The percentage of humans with that deep drive to understand is very low I think, and I think it's historically true. If you look back through history at the people who have made great scientific discoveries, they were very few and far between in relation to the masses of humanity. While most people were content to unquestionably accept the notion that the Earth was flat, Eratosthenes read about shadows in a book, and curiosity and the desire to know drove him to discover that the Earth was round.
I think the best thing ultimately is to just ignore the skiddies, and focus on learning. After all, all those people that thought the Earth was flat are long forgotten, but Eratosthenes' name is in many books.
