The Dirty Dozen: Predictions for 2026

But we are sleepwalking. Societies do not hover at moral equilibrium like a physics experiment left undisturbed. They drift, they decay, or they are corrected—never neutral, never static . . .

We will continue to sleepwalk. Societies do not hover at moral equilibrium like a physics experiment left undisturbed. They drift, they decay, or they are corrected—never neutral, never static. What we call “stability” usually just means momentum carrying us downhill, with our eyes politely closed.

Social and moral trends do not pause for reflection. The…