Day: February 19, 2026

We keep talking about the Great Filter like it’s a cosmic bear trap: some external horror waiting in the dark, a gamma-ray burst, a plague, a meteor with bad manners. Something that happens to you. Something you can blame. Something that lets you die with your dignity intact, whispering, “Well, what could we do?”

But what if the Filter is not outside.

What if the Great Filter is a mirror.… Read the rest