Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Saw This Moment Before We Had the Language for It
Long before algorithms, artificial intelligence, and digital ecosystems existed, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. warned the world that technological progress without moral and spiritual alignment would not save us — it would accelerate our destruction.
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In the final chapter of his last book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?, Dr. King wrote that the scientific and
technological advancement of the world could lead to greater chaos and even our own ruin unless humanity underwent what he called: “A radical revolution of values.”
He was not talking about politics.
He was not talking about economics.
He was talking about governance of the human soul.
He understood something we are now living inside of:
When systems advance faster than human alignment, they don’t create a better world —
they amplify disorder.What Dr. King could not have seen in 1967 was how that disorder would be scaled:
- Through digital ecosystems
- Through attention economies
- Through algorithmic reinforcement
- Through behavior-shaping machines
- Through invisible systems that train people faster than they grow
But he saw the spiritual and moral math perfectly.
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Dr. King warned that technological advancement without moral governance would destroy us.
Artificial intelligence didn’t invent the chaos.
It gave it infrastructure. It gave it:
- speed
- Reach
- Precision
- Scale
- Persistence
What we are witnessing in society right now is not just moral failure.
It is timeline failure.
People are not just making bad decisions.
They are being trained into bad trajectories.