This site is to a large extent the conclusion from the site essentiell.org

That site is a long read, to say the least although we strongly recommend to read the whole website as-is.
Even though it's hard to summarize in short it essentially has the point that according to our, and many others, deduction of the we should be able to detect traces of other civilizations in our galaxy, the Milky way. (All depending of the weight one put on the different variables in the equation of course.)

But we don't.

Our, conclusion, or maybe fear is a better word is that civilizations reaching a certain level of technology advancement together with the fact that the same civilization (as we do) contain a large (¹⁄₂) fraction of indecent behaviour or indecent species.
Yes, we actually claim that humanity have a fraction that show such an inherent and evolutionary trait of cognitive dissonance that we, as well as the Austrian philosopher and holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl, divide humanity into 2 separate "species".
The 'decent' and the 'indecent'.
We also extrapolate this onto potential other civilazations arising as technologically proficient at a stage where such a civilization can oblitirate itself many times over.

In essentiell.org we give multiple indications that this trait of indecency goes beyond being plainly dumb but is rather an inherent trait to humanity and also any other civilazation rising from unicellular organisms to technologicaly proficient.
At a certain developmental stage, the combination of inherently cognitive impairement leading to indecencyand the technological ability to destroy a civilization, it does. And that's the reason for the absence of any other traces of life in the Milky way.

The major signs for such a scenario is the lack of a commonly accepted objective truth and polarization driven policies making people prone for nationalistic ideas and an impaired global solidarity.
To oppose the first part, lack of a commonly accepted objective truth, false information and 'alternative facts' we have suggested a a UN funded platform that is simply setting the template for an objective truth.

To put an end to false information, 'alternative facts', troll factories and conspiracy theories, a globally independent body (preferably UN-funded and -based) must take form that can be recognized by all camps as a guarantor of objective truth. As soon as a platform, vlog or other (social) media that gains ground presents false information, it must be challenged directly within its own forum to its own audience and shown, on their own terms, how and why the information is not true. This institution must be so globally recognized and accepted that a denial of its authority or a refusal to interact with it is taken as an admission that one is spreading falsehoods.
To get there, we must have two societal incentives that are commonly accepted:

• Initially we must, from 1^st class have been "indoctrinated" with the fact that indecency and the inherent proneness to lie, to gain and maintain power, to instill fear in people, to belittle others, to beat their wifes, to kill other people in gang related violence, just the fact that you are in a gang enivironment and pretend that respect and honor is your central dogma, although it's the opposite since you use violence solely due to someone looking at you, racism, corruption, hate crimes, to embrace polarizing ideals, instigating wars and conflicts...we can go on...but ALL ths is due to an inferiority complex needing confirmation and affirmation from the consequences of all of the above.
  When it's is globally known and accepted that someone being in a gang, beating their wifes or clinging to power just because they feel inferior, or like we stated it in essentiell.org, feels like a "lilliput" and thereby labeling that behaviour and lying with an invisible stamp in their forehead of "ridiculous, "laughable" and childish" - a large portion of such bahviour will vanish.
• With the establishment that the indecent lie, create conspiracy theories and so called 'alternativ facts' to polarize people in an us-and-them just to maintain are gain power. Whether it's as a CEO or a political leader aspiring for political power.
  With that globally recognized and accepted, an aversion or dismissal of such an accepted institution that sets the hallmarks of the truth and the best current theories of how the world woks, will immediately categorize you as a lilliput just clinging to confirmation via power.

Of course having such a globally recognized and accepted UN-bases institution is at best very hard and worst case scenario - just a Utopia.

But, we can only do the best we can in any given scenario and truthbutton.org is the first step to this Utopia.

On such a journey, it is at least partly true that the journey is the destination, and to start somewhere, we have launched this site called "Truth button".
One of our editors for essentiell.org came up with the idea when as a child he always wished he had a "truth box" with a button on a box that always gave a true answer when you pressed the button. So you asked the box, pressed the button, and got a true answer from the box.



We will launch this portal in 2026 and the very point of the portal is to provide completely objectively truthful answers without regard to political correctness ('PC') and we will provide an answer regardless of whether that answer ends up in "ideologies" such as wokeness, libertarianism, leftist/liberal-agenda, far-left or far-right...etc

Of course, we rely on research, but also our own Questionnaire where we have put together a series of very straightforward, personal, moral and bordering on intergrity-violating questions. But of course, you choose whether you want to answer them or not and of course we do not save anything but yout answers.
Previously, we have been able to offer compensation for participation in the survey, such as "Triss" (Sweden), "Eurojackpot" (Europe) or "Powerball" (USA) or equivalent compensation depending on where you currently live.
Unfortunately, we can no longer offer this as compensation due to lack of funding, but we cannot emphasize enough the importance of your participation so that we can base our conclusions on as large a "population" as possible, usually called "n" in statistics. Of course, you answer completely anonymously and we do not save anything other than your answers.