The Fermi Paradox is nothing of the sort. It is simply an expression of how thoroughly ignorant we are about the nature of advanced technological and interstellar life, no more. It might mean that we are ignorant of the short lifespan or extreme rarity of technological civilizations, but we have insufficient data to support conclusions along those lines. It is more likely that our surmises about the nature of colonizing interstellar civilizations are just fundamentally in error in some way we cannot even really understand today in the same way that someone in the year 1500 BC would not truly understand the internet or antibiotics or electricity produced by way of nuclear fission and so wouldn't understand their impact on our way of life.