What 2026 Will Make Obvious

“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language. And next year’s words await another voice.”
— T.S. Eliot

When T.S. Eliot wrote those lines in 1942, he was pointing to a simple but uncomfortable truth. Language carries the logic of the era that produced it. When circumstances change in fundamental ways, the words we once relied on stop working. Progress depends not just on new ideas, but on recognizing when old descriptions no longer fit reality, and on finding a new voice to replace what once passed for the status quo.