I feel like you could get a paper published on this if you dressed it up in enough technobabble and implied it was white people's fault. "Erhnoracial evolutionary factors contributing to the existence of the so called 'great filter' barrier to a civilization achieving Kardashev type 3 status'". Abstract: The existence of a so-called great filter has been strongly implied from the lack of evidence of spacefaring civilizations within the range of earth based telescopes. This paper will establish that the most likely cause of a great filter is the rise of an entitled, violent, non-productive class that diverts resources away from scientific pursuits and to things such as drugs, jewelry, promiscuity, and other destructive behaviors.