Really this is a symptom of my greater worldview that you must be worthy of the systems and tools your forbears built for you.

It doesn't matter how cool the thing you make is, if you hand it off to someone malicious, or, more tragically, incompetent, then you have wasted your effort.

Conversely, when something is given to you, it is your moral imperative to understand the thing, and to be worthy of it. With the internet as a case study, I feel we can safely say that we (the royal we) were not ready for it to be given to us, because no one understood it, much less its first-order effects.

All of this is not to say people will not figure it out eventually, but we can only hope to do so before it subjugates or destroys us utterly.