Societal Collapse and the Fermi Paradox
5 min readOct 4, 2020
Has the advent of mass communication combined with a raging pandemic brought upon us a very real Great Filter?
The Great Filter
The Fermi paradox, named for the physicist Enrico Fermi, describes the apparent contradiction between the vastness of the universe and the probability of their being detectable life in it versus our inability to detect any actual sign…