The universe is teeming with life.

Every civilization, and I mean every civilization, abandons space travel, keeps small communities, and dies with their planet.

The problem is not the technology. The problem is the philosophy. We're philosophically in the age of amoeba. The advanced species understand the struggles of existence and simply maintain a natural balance. They may even begin to devolve.

There's no such thing as advancement for them. they abandoned the hollow pursuit. Every one of them. We have a long way to go.