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 – Equality.
The world is not the place it used to be since the turn of the Century. Humanity is now looking at, questioning, and repairing how things have been in our history. This is to ensure a fairer future. Equality is at the forefront of this revolution in behaviours, standards, fairness, and society norms. But trying to right the wrongs has itself stirred up a hot bed of issues. This means SMS has to take a look and ask some questions perhaps others are not. Or won’t.
1. Where to start?
Yes, straight into the fray. Many will shout that it is obvious….but is it? The first clear equality is for human rights for everyone. Rights to be who you are and not punished or penalised for it. However there are other well voiced inequalities that also require some improvement or wide range change. There is the equality of gender, of skin colour and race, of religious faith, of sexuality as the largest areas that demand attention. All groups have a justifiable right to more fairness. But society has always struggled with mass change like this. It works best through a gradual altering of how we live.
So where do we start with mass equality? What is the starting point to ensure the equality is here to stay?
2. A Human list?
Equality seems a simple premise. In reality though, equality can be hard to define in some areas but very clear in others. Added to this is that various people and groups seeking equality themselves aren’t in agreement about how that equality should look. There’s our challenge. We believe equality to be right but how it should work in practice has not been defined in some set parameters. It would help if we had a specific list of all areas that equality should be made to exist in and applied to.
Should we have a list of human needs that all equality has to be measured by?
3. Is equality reality?
Now the controversial question. Life is not fair. What one person gets, another doesn’t. Some seem born lucky. Others less so. That’s how life works. We all attempt to make life fairer, but it’s never going to end up that way. Maybe equality reflects that. We are attempting today to make society more equal on many levels. From legislation to attitudes equality has become a vital part of everyday life. But we never be able to make life entirely equal because it, well, it is life.
At what point do we reach before we decide equality can never be full reality?
4. Are our foundations wrong?
Equality is how we should live. It helps preserve and progress life. But, we live and are ruled by another method. A method that makes creating extended uniformity more and more difficult. Money. Over the last few decades capitalism has spread across the Earth. This drives division. Those who had, have now got more. Those that had less have struggled to keep that. More people are fighting this than they are equality as it effects everyone.
Is the modern love and need for money harming the need for equality?
5. Will we DO equality?
The famous Hollywood actor Will Rogers observed, ‘We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others’. Compared to the past we now recognize more rights for each other than we have ever done. But, recognizing is only the first step. The real step is to physically DO something about this. Apologies for the past help but won’t go far at providing real rights today and the future.
What is the main step or action we need to do to ensure we live in a more equal world?
Ok, that’s another SuperMind Saturday done. Thank you for being here for the SuperMind time. Keep thinking about these. We need more minds thinking about this issue and the others issue on SuperMind Saturdays. Why? Because it’s needed. Because the world requires new thoughts and ideas. Perhaps YOURS!!
See you next time for more super thinking.
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