Our social media and celebrity-industrial complex is turning our Kardashev scale into a Kardashian index of networked collective idiocy with human governance turned into a subcategory of entertainment. Thus avoiding a fatal collision with the Great Filter may be difficult.

Einstein foresaw this when he said that one day we'd invent the technology that would turn us into idiots. Consider one historian's view of our neolithic blunder and the Fermi paradox: https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/dont-look-up-look-back-why-study-history-part-two-2229b27aa0a0