CT,

I am not so sure that instant gratification is so much the problem to my way of thinking, although fishing seems to have more than its share of it, as is too much lack of just plain common courtesy.
There have always been far fewer experts than participants in any recreation, and I think that is to be expected and is pretty normal in the course of things, but the willingness to horn in on others' performance is really what twists my gut. That is no doubt every bit the fault of failure in upbringing as anything else. I really think you have put your finger on the source. For me it has gotten to the point that I need a reason to trust before I share. I didn't use to be that way, but once burned twice wary I guess, although it has taken more than just once in a few things.

There really is nothing that I do well that I learned all on my own, and I regret that I do not trust far too many to share as well as has been shared with me. There has been good reason for that but I certainly wish it were not so.