Entropy creeps into everything, unstoppably, masked under the pretense of a sequence of individually logical choices. To recover from this we will have to take

Entropy creeps into everything, unstoppably, masked under the pretense of a sequence of individually logical choices. To recover from this we will have to take a few steps back before we can make more steps forward. But we keep pushing and pushing, until either the tower we're building collapses, or us and what we do simply gradually become more and more complicated, with smaller and smaller gains that we focus on more and more, until it's all indistinguishable from background cosmic noise. Fermi paradox resolved. Sorry, poetic diversion.