Five thoughts, ideas, insights, or quotes to power up your mind to think differently and creatively about life and who we are. Put all previous thinking away and open up a brand new world of the Supermind. YOUR SuperMind.
This week – Taxation.
Taxation, the bane of our lives. But necessary governments would say to pay for running our countries and providing vital services and infrastructure. We don’t like them but they are not going to go away so this week SuperMind Saturday asks that we take another view at them.
- There is a famous quote by Benjamin Franklin that half the planet has heard of. He said, ‘Nothing in this world can be said to be certain, except death and taxes’. Death itself can’t ever be halted, but what about taxes? Could they ever end? How could a nation provide what it currently does without taxes?
- Taxes can be seen to be too easy. Take the money directly from worker’s pay packets at source immediately when they are paid. It’s an antiquated system, buy maybe it’s not fit for modern purpose. Would it be better to set up a type of standing order at a bank for a smaller weekly amount making collection more streamlined? How could we modernise tax collecting in this way?
- The Egyptians were the creators of taxation. Around 3000 BC Pharaohs employed scribes to impose levies on goods and produce. This was collected twice a year. Some American states still have just a form of sales tax on items like this. Could we remove income tax and create a sliding scale of sales tax on all goods instead so richer goods have higher sales tax added and everyday products have a lower figure?
- The subtle increases of taxation by governments have grown. Taxes on travel and cutting personal allowances as well as upping on property sales duty, especially after death. Taxes are applied for almost everything even though many struggle to pay bills. How do we stop their unceasing rise when those in power will block any move to reduce their spread?
- Finally an idea on transparency. As our governments take our hard earned money in taxes, they should be made to record a balance sheet detailing exactly how much tax is collected and how it is spent. This is released each year as full public information. Then we can see if our income is being used in the most efficient and sensible manner. And vote accordingly if not!
That’s another SuperMind Saturday for your mind powers to work on. Thank you for being here for the SuperMind time. Keep asking yourself these through the week to open up more of your mind to evolve its potential. Consider more, generate ideas more, think on bigger possibilities more, activate your connection to your personal higher mind more and more. Employ your SuperMInd and Super Think!
See you next time for more super thinking.
Five thoughts, ideas, insights, or quotes to power up your mind to think differently and creatively about life and who we are. Put all previous thinking away and open up a brand new world of the Supermind. YOUR SuperMind.
This week – Abuse.
Modern society seems full of abuse. Abuse in all forms online and offline, virtual and in real life. It’s a growing trend. So much so that it’s this week’s feature on SuperMind Saturday. Open your SuperMind and see if we can end the abuse.
- Abuse began it’s steady spread in society on social media. Feeling protected behind an often nameless or fake account, abusers feel they can say anything they want. Few rarely end up in courts. How do we compel social media platforms to permanently ban such users or report them to official crime authorities? How can online abuse be ended?
- The well known phrase says, ‘The time should fit the crime’. It means prison or some fine should match the seriousness of the offence. So how can we do this with abuse online? Inform the abusers employers or stop benefits or issue some warning that means automatic jail on a second offence? What is the best way to make abusers pay?
- Abuse online occurs because people can buy many hundreds of different email addresses so they have countless accounts. Technology could be used to ensure only one email address per person or similar to be able to trace the offenders. How can technology be more utilised to prevent or rid us of online abuse?
- Abuse of all types though is growing. Violence has become widespread across the everyday world. To solve this we need to understand why. We need to stop it existing in the years ahead this way. What reason(s) would you attribute to so many people turning abusive over the last decade? Is there a sensible common sense approach that could rid us of this in the next decade?
- On the surface abuse appears to be an everyday occurrence. From drivers making gestures and throwing out swearing at other road users to anger expressed easily by the public in any situation on the street/in shops etc. Previously non-abusive people now the other way round. Where will this go? What next if we don’t change very quickly who we are as humans? What factor will alter this from descending further?
That’s another SuperMind Saturday for your mind powers to work on. Thank you for being here for the SuperMind time. Keep asking yourself these through the week to open up more of your mind to evolve its potential. Consider more, generate ideas more, think on bigger possibilities more, activate your connection to your personal higher mind more and more. Employ your SuperMInd and Super Think!
See you next time for more super thinking.
Five thoughts, ideas, insights, or quotes to power up your mind to think differently and creatively about life and who we are. Put all previous thinking away and open up a brand new world of the Supermind. YOUR SuperMind.
This week – Sex.
Sex. A form of pleasure, a way to create a family, our human need as such. Yet it’s still a word that makes many people uncomfortable or a taboo subject. And that’s perfect for SuperMind Thinking, the very theme we need to look at on a Saturday. So switch on your SuperMind and let’s get sexy.
- For a very long time sex was a dirty word. It was something intensely private that was not talked about in public nor even by some couples. But today we don’t even flinch when it’s mentioned. Why are we now so relaxed with sex and is that a good thing?
- Quote – An observation by award winning actor, Billy Crystal, ‘Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place’. He may have had some truth in that in the past, but is that true today? Are women more active in taking the lead in sex and why has it changed?
- Sex is experienced by more people through watching porn every day than in enjoying the actual act. Most studies into porn find it harmful to self-esteem and loving relationships. It also promotes sex as as mere animal instinct rather than a caring union. Porn is everywhere due to the rise of the internet. Why is the world addicted to porn? Are we losing morals or finding freedom in our sexuality?
- Thought – as early as the 1900’s the advertising industry followed the principle that ‘sex sells’. It entices our more carnal desires to grab our interest and part with our money. Today this idiom appears entrenched in the human psyche. Sex has become a commodity. And it’s become part of a common business transaction.
- Violence has become commonplace in films and especially TV schedules. So much so that we aren’t so shocked about it anymore. The same applies to sex and perhaps even more so. Could sex do with a makeover? If so, how should and could we promote it better?
That’s another SuperMind Saturday for your mind powers to work on. Thank you for being here for the SuperMind time. Keep asking yourself these through the week to open up more of your mind to evolve its potential. Consider more, generate ideas more, think on bigger possibilities more, activate your connection to your personal higher mind more and more. Employ your SuperMInd and Super Think!
See you next time for more super thinking.
Five thoughts, ideas, insights, or quotes to power up your mind to think differently and creatively about life and who we are. Put all previous thinking away and open up a brand new world of the Supermind. YOUR SuperMind.
This week – Mental Health.
Mental Health is a big, big subject these days. COVID challenged us on many levels but hardest of all was in our minds. It flagged up how important the once neglected mental side of health truly is. So this week, SuperMind Saturday takes a look at our mental wellness.
- Mental Health – as ever I’m going to start with the point on many people’s lips. In this case it’s the word mental. This conjures up someone crazy, out of their minds, and plain mad. Therefore it’s perhaps not the best word to be used to draw attention to good mind health. And so should that be used instead? Good Mind Health? Or do you have an even better term that promotes a better view on mental wellbeing?
- Most people don’t like to talk about their mental health. But, even more so, they don’t want to even think about it even though that’s the right thing to do. We seem so scared about looking at our own mental health. What do we think we will find???
- Quote – award winning actress Glenn Close wonderfully said, ‘What mental health needs is more sunlight…and more unashamed conversation’. Mental health doesn’t seem half as bad when spoken about by a celebrity. How can we use well known people to normalise talking about mental health?
- Thought. How ground breaking would it be if someone created a highly publicised programme and book about a thought diet? A healthy range of thoughts to fit into our daily thinking patterns. Would you love to participate in a thought diet and why?
- Best health is seen as bodily health. We eat well and exercise well and reduce harmful substances to maintain a sturdy system. But the mind is also part of our body as such, a key component of what keeps us alive. Is it time then that society encouraged mind exercises for us to undertake to keep our mental health as good as our physical one? How best can we do this?
That’s another SuperMind Saturday for your mind powers to work on. Thank you for being here for the SuperMind time. Keep asking yourself these through the week to open up more of your mind to evolve its potential. Consider more, generate ideas more, think on bigger possibilities more, activate your connection to your personal higher mind more and more. Employ your SuperMInd and Super Think!
See you next time for more super thinking.
Five thoughts, ideas, insights, or quotes to power up your mind to think differently and creatively about life and who we are. Put all previous thinking away and open up a brand new world of the Supermind. YOUR SuperMind.
This week – Education.
Education is at the root of the quality of society. It teaches and prepares our young generations for the future. It also aids us in our adult lives to improve and progress. It’s the bedrock of humanity. Yet, despite this, week after week it appears in the news regarding some aspect of it. Are we getting it wrong? Is it failing our children? Or are we tweaking it too much too often? This week let’s put our SuperMind Thinking onto the subject.
- Let’s go straight at it. The word education is often followed by the word system. That word means part of a complex whole. So, maybe education has become too clever itself. We are trying to do many things in too many ways. How can we make education more simple delivering the basics we all need?
- That said the world is fast evolving. Traditional subjects once (and still taught) in schools are less relevant than ever in modern life. Is it time to ditch certain subjects? What new ones should be part of the 21st Century schools curriculum?
- Another facet of education are teachers standing in front of a class of students pointing at a board with information on relating to a book or text in front of them. While that has changed over the years, this style chiefly still remains the major manner by which learning is delivered. Is there a better way to teach people (especially young people) via less learning and more doing or using technology as the main teacher?
- Nelson Mandela famously said, ‘Education is the most powerful weapon by which you can change the world‘. But is that true in today’s modern culture? Is there another stronger solution to change the world for everyone of any age?
- Thought – education has always been planned to prepare us for life, or for some skill or role to come. But this preparation is non-emotional. It is actual based and not aesthetically so. In a modern society of feelings somehow emotional awareness and resilience have to be factored into teaching as a full and whole method of education. Is it time for this biggest shift in education in hundreds of years?
That’s another SuperMind Saturday for your mind powers to work on. Thank you for being here for the SuperMind time. Keep asking yourself these through the week to open up more of your mind to evolve its potential. Consider more, generate ideas more, think on bigger possibilities more, activate your connection to your personal higher mind more and more. Employ your SuperMInd and Super Think!
See you next time for more super thinking.
Five thoughts, ideas, insights, or quotes to power up your mind to think differently and creatively about life and who we are. Put all previous thinking away and open up a brand new world of the Supermind. YOUR SuperMind.
This week – Crime and Jail.
SuperMind Saturday explores new thinking and ideas on life’s many key subjects. Especially ones that many people are talking about. This week a subject that has come to the fore in the last decade. That of crime and going to jail. Every single week there seems to be some headline or other on a convicted criminal and their sentence. It’s a hot topic. That kind precisely I believe SuperMinds are made for. So….let’s get involved.
- It’s a fact that jails are jammed with inmates who have committed some crime or other. There has never been so many prisoners than before. But that is the effect. Somewhere else there has to be cause. Why are so many people turning to crime or acting in ways that lead to being in jail and how do we stop this?
- Historically being sent to jail acted as a deterrent to would be law breakers. Today it seems it’s an accepted risk for their chosen criminal activity. How can we make jail an outcome that potential offenders simply do not want again?
- Let’s got metaphoric. Being in jail means being in a prison you can’t get out of, something you are stuck in or with for many years. On that level, what is the biggest personal jail most people are held captive in across the world? How would you change that?
- Jails everywhere are full to bursting so is it time to re-think jails as such. Rather than large centralised buildings like now should there be alternative prisons built such as whole ready made built communities deeper in the country or islands that can house greater numbers or even underground lairs? What could be the ‘new jails’ of the future?
- It used to be said that crime doesn’t pay. But with modern organised gangs using worldwide supply routes that is a thing of the past it appears. As such low level crime like shoplifting, muggings, and break-ins are no longer investigated by the police. Is this the future of crime? How is crime developing and how can we beat it before it does.
That’s another SuperMind Saturday for your mind powers to work on. Thank you for being here for the SuperMind time. Keep asking yourself these through the week to open up more of your mind to evolve its potential. Consider more, generate ideas more, think on bigger possibilities more, activate your connection to your personal higher mind more and more. Employ your SuperMInd and Super Think!
See you next time for more super thinking.
