>>109461769Yeah, a lot of people directly assume that intelligence and civilization are the natural progression of all life, when all current evidence points to us being the weird offshoot.
People underestimate the clusterfuck of coincidences that we went through to even develop intelligence, as well as the propensity toward developing society as a whole.
Fuck, there could be a race far smarter than us, but what if the only thing holding them back is written language, or them simply not being a social species, etcetera.
