We are all animals living in an alien zoo, where they run social experiments for fun. Like installing the biggest idiot as the leader of the most powerful country in the world. And then they watch us like some reality TV show. It’s really surreal what is happening in the world that it must be true.
Maybe Earth is just another petri dish among thousands like it. The past 10 000 years could be a part of grand experiment to figure out if all human planets end up destroying the whole planet sooner or later. Maybe there is a genetic sequence that makes humans smart enough to avoid that catastrophe. My guess is, this dish didn’t get the winning sequence.
Even if we somehow survive, why wouldn’t the experimenter just chuck all the dishes into an autoclave when they’re done with the experiment. I mean, you shouldn’t leave an unsupervised experiment running indefinitely. It’s more ethical to stop it at some point, right?