We are living in a quarantined solar system, within a simulated view of the Cosmos, created by a transcended Empire. We were uplifted from proto-chimps (which was not a unanimous choice) via the slow path of genetics. Then we were declared a protected species, and placed inside a heavenly sphere a bit larger than our heliosphere. By no surprise, our probes will soon cease to send data home.
The "prime directive" said we were to be left alone, but the anti-uplift faction broke the blockade and tried to make us kill ourselves off. Then the pro-uplifters began trying to teach us laws and morality, so we would resist our evil impulses. The result is the messy battlefield that the Earth has become. But the reason we don't see the aliens is that they are transcended. They are now what we call Spirit.
The ways we are protected are as follows:
1. A heliosphere sized "crystal spere" to limit our view outward, hiding the Empire from us, and showing only a simulation,
2. A localized lightspeed velocity limitation, by way of a dampimg field that distorts our physical observations, so the math won't relate,
3. A camouflage shield to hide any ships that pass through to observe us (or they will get blasted beyond possible recognition, like Oamuamua), and
4. Certain promising specimens have their own assigned "guardian angel" to ward off any direct attacks from the enemy, but they don't stop us from choosing risky behavior.
This speculation serves to explain all of our observations, and matches what we should expect from mythological sources and theological revelations. And it does explain why we don't see any evidence of aliens in our galaxy, or even beyond it in the Cosmos at large. After all, "what we call Truth often depends upon our point of view." Right?
Ever since Zarathustra, we've been hearing about a war in Heaven. Even today, when we have the power to destroy civilization and devastate our planet, we are faced with this conflict on an ideological level. Politics and Religion are the proxy battlefields where the lines are drawn between good and evil. How shall we define Heaven? How do we know what is correct morality? And how do we tell which flag and faction we are serving? We have only our own moral compass, to insist upon the Golden Rule and our ideals of Truth, Love, Freedom and Wisdom to judge by. Those and the Revelations we have preserved from ancient days which teach us to revere those as good give us the standard (in hoc signo vincit) to follow, along with the promises of salvation and inevitable victory over the adversary. Together, those must be our perpetual guides.
And then, one day when we have passed the tests, or progressed to the point where we can no longer be conscientiously contained, it will be revealed just how much has been hidden from us. Hopefully, by then we will have matured enough as a species to be able to step smoothly into the role of Citizens of the Empire, and accept the privileges thereof without abusing their potentials. Then we will know how protected we have been, and we will know the true and final answer to the Fermi Paradox.
If that isn't the answer, then indeed we are the firstborn within our observable horizon, and we are alone in the Cosmos... for now.
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