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Dark forest answer to the Fermi paradox.
If two sapient species make contact, the result would turn out with one exploiting the other, or destroying the other to preserve themselves.
One assumes that a peaceful and altruistic nature is the more advanced and logical way for an intelligent species to develop into.
But studies on evolutionary psychology have made it clear that what would really be the best development would be a species whose nature most aligns with practices that win the game of evolution for their genes, which would be genocentric, and by extension, ethnocentric, in nature.
Like jews do, they'd promote the idea of some utilitarian cooperation across all life to us in order to make us think in thst way, but in reality the reason they'd do this is because having us adopt that kind of mindset would make us more likely to cooperate with our own conquest, enslavement, and destruction.
They would practice a selfish approach that takes advantage of ourselves, tldr nothing is worse than aliens saying to us that they cone in peace, because what it truly is, is a pretense they will use to conquer us, enslave us, or destroy us.
Also, the only reason a species that has won evolutionary game theory would seek out less advanced life is for slaves, nothing more or less than that, we have nothing to offer that they cannot get with less risk to themselves except that we are also a somewhat intelligent species capable of taking orders and working within technological systems, our labor is our greatest resource, not water, or other resources, but us ourselves.
Best to strike first and ask questions later, because the first strike advantage is likely to be so great in this situation that it's not worth the risk of not taking it, in fact, with how most sapient species are likely to have evolved into the late stage of their existence, according to evolutionary game theory and the rules of kin selective behavior, not taking the chance to wipe them out or repel them in the first opportunity thst presents itself is going to be almost certain doom for our species.
We should, in fact, be seeking out intelligent life just in order to wipe it out when we find it at the earliest opportunity we could possibly get.
Bonsai theory: Any sufficiently advanced alien species (one that is intersolar) will attempt, on contact with a new and advancing civilization, to put a ceiling on the lesser developed species and its progress, so as to limit the threat and future competition for resources.
Would explain religion.
One undeniable thing that the Fermi Paradox shows us is our own ignorance. There is something monumental that we are missing in the understanding of the universe around us.
The dark forest answer isn't bad, but it doesn't quite fit. In a dark forest there is a reason it's dark--the trees are blocking out the light to get it for themselves. Why are we not seeing any trees--Dyson swarms--when we look out into the cosmos?
One answer is that we're the first intelligent life to evolve, or one of the first, in our light cone. Someone has to be the first. Another answer is a cosmic conspiracy. The celestial sphere is fake and we're seeing what the aliens want us to see. We're in a zoo. (space is fake and gay, lol)
Earth like systems are exceedingly rare, you need the perfect conditions to get a long term habitable planet capable of intelligent life that can exploit fire/chemistry (A frozen ice world might yield intelligence on the order of a whale but whales can't forge underwater). Jupiter keeps us from being swallowed by the sun, it protects us from asteroid impacts...All the other systems we see last I checked are binaries or gas giants in close orbit (or some other unique outliers). Furthermore you need a moon to mix and stir the primordial tide pools and churn down the rock and later mud.... you need a magnetic field or everything gets cancer and dies, you need the right range of gravity or else you'll get nothing but slugs... There are so many conditions you need to meet and the distances between these systems are so large.
The only way they get here (or we get there) is a Rama style generation ship that we could see coming for years and years. The most realistic scenario is just long range/high delay radio communications. Unless the aliens can literally break physics we would have nothing to fear, and if they can literally break physics there are plenty of other places to get metals and water and whatever else you want. You would need a hyper advanced race of slavers (and what do you need with us anyway if you are that advanced, unless they are all jewish alien sex pests) or predator style sport hunters willing to spend untold billions to mount a naked ape on their wall.
They are out there but they are way too far away and just as limited as we are so of course we haven't discovered them.
We have to be careful when looking at our history and assuming that this is the only way life can form and under our circumstances. Given how ignorant we are on the subject it's folly to try to estimate probabilities or to say that things can't happen any other way.
Personally I think the universe is infinite and what we think of as the big bang is just some local perturbation in space-time. In an infinite universe other intelligent life forms exist, though they can be out of our reach.
We should, in fact, be seeking out intelligent life just in order to wipe it out when we find it at the earliest opportunity we could possibly get.
I say we should jew the space aliens. Why not? Jews jew us so we could use another species to jew over to make things more even.
Local space could be packed end to end with civilizations at about our level of technology, and we wouldn't know it. At these vast distances, a few nukes and some ultra high frequency radio broadcasts are going to get lost in the noise of Nature.
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