Reply to What happened to ingenuity?

Sort of a rant here...

What happened to ingenuity? I see a lot of posts on here with kids asking what seem to be somewhat crazy questions. An example that I keep seeing reoccur is people asking how to hook up speakers. Now granted, I understand certain pro-audio applications can get a little out of the ordinary, but c'mon man!
I remember as a kid, I used to jury rig just about anything and everything. If there was an electronic piece of gear I wanted to use, short of hacking it apart (which is by no means unheard of), I always was able to figure out how to get things to work. Not just me either, but just about everyone one I ever knew could accomplish what always seemed to me like pretty simple stuff. Asking how something as simple as a speaker hooks up is the old school equivalent to me of your mom or grandma asking you to set the clock on the VCR back in the day. C'MON KIDS! GET ON YOUR GAME!!!