As you may have read, David who fought Goliath was a hacker and it was modernised in the famous scene from Indiana Jones where Indy shoots a master swordsman using a gun instead of struggling with him. Hacking or heroism involves breaking or bending as many invisible rules as possible and not accepting your "fate" (which is usually death) and this applies both to fiction and to real life.
The opposite of hacking is conformism where you accept all the normative rules of society, fear your own shadow, and stagnate and die, possibly by taking many innocent people's lives with you.
As a result, eccentricity and "craziness" are the road to a happy life, not conformism as widely believed.