Review: Thoughtful and Detailed Solution

With his book A Celebration Society, Jonathan Kolber has not only produced a far reaching elucidation of many of today’s (and more importantly, tomorrow’s) global problems, but he has also done that rare and difficult thing – provided a thoughtful and detailed solution to them.  Too often, we do things because that’s how we’ve always done them, without necessarily thinking of a better way.

As a species, our duty should be to concentrate on a method to sustainably maximize happiness and mitigate misery for every person on the planet.  The coming economic disruption that will be caused by automation and robotics in the next few decades will create enormous social upheaval – and whether that effect is negative or positive depends on how many people will seriously embrace the principles in this book.

If readers perceive the narrative of this book to be too far-fetched, then I suspect we will not be able to avoid the coming negative upheaval.  If, on the other hand, people approach these ideas with an open and clear mind, I have faith for the future.  Thanks are due to Jonathan for focusing this conversation in such a detailed way.

Not everyone will agree with all of the details of this conversation, but I hope we can agree that we need a book like this to start this conversation.

~Alexander R. Bandar, Ph.D., Founder/CEO of the Columbus Idea Foundry, the world’s largest and most active community workshop