Chapter 1: The Need for a Yaysaying Mindset

In an era filled with challenges such as deadly pandemics, emerging variants, monopolistic tech companies, autonomous weapons, civil unrest, disrupted supply chains, escalating inflation, cyberattacks, environmental catastrophes, and invasive species, the world is rife with negativity. The existing systems and institutions have often failed to deliver equitable prosperity for all of humanity, benefiting only a select few.

In this context, clinging to the status quo or assuming that being part of it will yield the greatest good for the largest number is a misguided belief. Those committed to justice, liberty, equality, and fraternity must recognize that change is essential.

What the world truly requires is a community of yaysayers—individuals willing to advocate for innovative technologies and systems that challenge the prevailing status quo. These new approaches are vital for addressing the unjust distribution of wealth and resources and for empowering humanity to rise to higher spiritual and existential planes.

A yaysaying mindset contrasts sharply with mere optimism, which can be detrimental if approached uncritically. Yaysaying involves the active consideration of how emerging technologies, social frameworks, and economic models can lead to transformative outcomes, diverging significantly from those generated by outdated and often corrupt systems manipulated by a privileged minority.

Numerous thinkers, technologists, and philosophers are diligently working towards creating a more equitable and sustainable world—one that avoids self-destruction through the continued use of harmful technologies.

This article proposes that a yaysaying mindset can exist alongside efforts to dismantle systemic corruption and oppression. It is through this lens of yaysaying that we can begin to address the pressing ecological and environmental challenges of the 21st century and beyond.

With renewed hope in the concept of yaysaying, we aspire to navigate this century in a manner that leaves behind a flourishing planet for future generations, who may ultimately express gratitude for the yaysaying mindset of our time.

Yay!