History compressed

With America at war with itself, Britain and Europe in irreversible decline, and Islam progressively occupying the western world without resistance, it is time to acknowledge that this is a moment in history when events are being compressed like atoms in a nuclear fusion reactor.

You may not be familiar with nuclear fusion yet, being used to nuclear fission, in which the nuclei of atoms are split to release energy, as in the bomb. But my guess is that experimental fusion reactors will have dropped their current experimental tag and be sitting in our backyards around the same time as Imams are setting up camp there.

I like fusion reactors. Heaps of safe, cheap energy.

I don’t like Imams. Heaps of unsafe, bad energy.

Now, you can go on believing that people with penises are women, and people with white skin are the only members of humanity capable of being racist, violent and misogynist, if it makes you feel virtuous, but please don’t claim that it puts you on the right side of history. The Imams won’t care if you spray paint slogans on Tesla cars or tear down billboards from people’s lawns because they are predominantly blue — or red. They’re only interested in whether you’re an infidel (in which case, off with your head, and being ashamed of yourself and your distant forebears won’t help you retain it).

Oh, I know, you think I’m being deliberately provocative to gain your attention. That’s only because I’m not wearing a pompous pundit’s face and dressing up my rhetoric in the bob-each-way circumlocution of political speak. What I’m trying to do is point out that history is so speeded up now that people can’t see it. What used to take centuries to unfold is now happening in a decade or less. Revolutions, for instance.

The Agricultural Revolution, taking we hunters and gatherers of the post Ice Age to domesticated smallholders with pigs and potato patches, began 12,000 years ago, leading to permanent settlements and the genesis of what we now call civilization. Then came the second Agricultural Revolution 300 years ago, in Britain of all places, that increased food production so much that populations grew faster, were mostly fed without needing to kill each other for it, and thereby provided workers for the Industrial Revolution which began in earnest 200 years ago, also in Britain, before spreading around the world on the back of good old colonialism.

By our standards those were long times for revolutionary changes to occur, and you could have been forgiven for thinking at the time that not much was happening. But notice that things were speeding up. In my lifetime the Industrial Revolution has been overtaken by the Technological Revolution, which was then overtaken by the Digital Revolution three decades ago, now being overtaken right this minute by the AI Revolution and the new Robotic Age. In China there are already mega factories staffed solely by robots, and within a decade the concept of a “workforce” will no longer include humans.

We could be excused for believing that in our lifetimes we’ve been trapped in a washing machine of change permanently stuck on the spin cycle. So, what’s our response to all this?

History used to provide us with perspective and lessons, but once it chose to change from wash to spin, those two things got drained away. Now we are increasingly dizzy and unbalanced, unable to see anything clearly and thrashing about until somebody pushes the pause button. If you’re a pessimist, you’ll conclude that no-one’s going to push the pause button and the washing machine will eventually overheat and blow up with us inside it. If you’re an optimist, you’ll conclude that having a relationship with an AI companion is preferable to the messy business of giving affection to another human, and receiving subsistence from a benign World Government is better than having to go to work.

In our dizzy state we desperately try and hang on to reality by focusing on the little things. Should men be able to choose to compete in women’s sport? If we put our plastic bottles in a “recycling bin” will that stop the oceans from rising? Was Bill Clinton wearing swimming trunks in that picture of him in Jeffrey Epstein’s hot tub with a young lady? While big things spin by, of which we don’t or won’t take notice.

The biggest thing currently is not robots, but the collapse of the nuclear family. That’s the thing that has been the consistent building block of civilisation since the Ice Age, and you may not be aware of the rate at which we are abandoning it. Here’s an update:

· Marriage rates in western countries have dropped by up to 60% in the last 50 years.

· Women’s birth rates have fallen by around 55%.

· For younger millennials of childbearing age more than half have “definitely or probably” chosen not to have children.

· Meanwhile, LGBTQ+ rates in GenZ are now around 23%, and 31% in GenZ women. Not much chance of rising birth rates there. Overall, heterosexual identification sits at under 80%.

Where the panda goes, we go

Of animal species, only the panda bear can compete with us in the urge to stop breeding, and the panda has thousands of earnest zookeepers and ecologists fussing over it with constant attention and fertility drugs. We don’t have anyone fussing over us, unless you include Elon Musk, who sees it as his duty to sire 100 children, and is dedicated to preserving human DNA on Mars for the moment when it disappears from Earth. Elon’s both observant and smart. No wonder so many people loath him.

The optimist says that Nature will save us. Our instincts will kick in and we’ll reverse the trends, they say. The pessimist says Nature has seen the robots coming and is more wedded to the inevitability of evolution than it is to us stupid, good-for-nothing creatures who can’t save ourselves.

Who’s going to be around to see how quickly we compressed history? Not me, thank God.

A.I. Fabler

January 31, 2026

PS. Last week I promised an update on Jacinda Ardern and the release of further evidence that she is, and was, a product solely of her own fevered imagination. (It was something about her, Larry Fink and phantom wind farms.) But I’m sorry, I haven’t the stomach for it. Make something up for yourself. It’s just as likely to be as true as her kindness and sincerity.