We’ve outsourced our thinking the way we’ve outsourced our food. Processed, prepackaged, and spoon-fed on a schedule someone else designed. Critical thought, once a birthright, is now a boutique hobby, while most of us rely on headlines to tell us what’s true, influencers to tell us what’s good, and algorithms to tell us what’s next. We don’t digest information anymore; we swallow it whole, on command, with whatever flavor makes it easiest to forget we’re being fed.