that's what i figure, and they don't give us technology or advice much like humans don't go and give a deer clothes and a book.   yeah, but if that were the case they would have interacted with us by now, after all we've had ufo stuff going on since the black plague at least, possibly even longer. if we were the one other civilization out there they would have had contact with us at some point. if we're just some remote amazonian tribe they avoid contact as much as possible to not disturb our primitive way of life, while filming us from space. hypothetically they could even just take all of our media and dub it over in their language, they don't even have to go on the ground and film it. if we were unique they would want to interact with us, if we're just a little rare they might go the "preservation" route, only interacting enough that we don't get any tech advantage and it doesn't effect our way of life. they probably already have some humans off-planet at this point anyway, a lot of people you could disappear from an entire planet, and many of them would be happy for it.
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