![]() The metaphor of the “World House” came to King when he read a newspaper article about a famous novelist who had died. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is one that he pored over for more than a month, as he prepared to use his platform on a global stage to make a call for a radical new world. To get to these answers, we need to consider one of King’s most important and overlooked pieces of writing, The World House, a chapter in the last book he wrote, “Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?” This chapter was taken largely from the Noble Prize Lecture at the University of Oslo on December 11, 1964. think or advise if he were alive today? What might he say in these days after the Capitol Building was attacked by a primarily white mob that was seeking to usurp the results of a free and fair election and implement an America First agenda through violent force? We are facing converging global crises - a horrific pandemic, worsening economic inequality both in the United States and globally, climate change and the continuing scourge of systemic racism around the world. ![]()
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