The Fermi Paradox is the discrepancy between the lack of conclusive evidence of advanced  extraterrestrial life and the apparently high likelihood of its existence. As a 2015 article put it, “If life is so easy, someone from somewhere must have come calling by now.”

Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi‘s name is associated with the paradox because of a casual conversation in the summer of 1950 with fellow physicists Edward Teller, Herbert York, and Emil Konopinski. While walking to lunch, the men discussed recent UFO reports and the possibility of faster-than-light travel. The conversation moved on to other topics, until during lunch Fermi blurted out, “But where is everybody?”

One answer to this is that when a civilisation becomes advanced enough to destroy itself it does so. Nuclear war was the obvious method during the Cold War but now it’s Global Warming or perhaps the AI Singularity.

Ferministas Paradox provides a variation on that answer:

Every civilization that gets advanced enough goes through a similar “woke” period where Karens cancel and destroy everything that made the society advanced in the first place in the name of diversity, equity, and inclusion. This ultimately leads to the utter destruction of the society and in most cases even the species that advanced it in the first place. Therefore, there is no advanced alien life contacting us through the vast reaches of space.