What am I?

... that's what The Bunyip of Berkley's Creek kept asking anyway.

Fortunately for the Bunyip of Berkley's creek, it didn't matter what he was. As soon as he saw himself reflected in the lady bunyip, he accepted himself as the same kind and lived happily ever after. Maybe he should have looked at this website?

http://uqconnect.net/~zzlaueli/bunyips.htm

At this point in life, I've decided I'm a Socialist, hardcore feminist who likes to wear dresses and make-up, (don't scoff this is totally justifiable and can easily be argued as irrelevant to any true feminist motivation for gender equality, which doesn't demand we negate or deny our natural biological urges to appear attractive. Gender equality is about mutual respect and appreciation for differences and what each gender brings to society, not about revenge or blind rebellion,) Christian, Taoist, Metaphysical Panantheist, (as opposed to Pantheism itself.)

http://www.panentheism.com/

I'm huge on Christ, and on Lao Tze Tung, both of whose teachings are not as far removed as one might think. I believe Christ's teachings have been perverted and hijacked for political and personal gain and the original church bears little resemblance to his original teachings I think if Jesus' teachings were put into practice, they would appear Socialist in nature.

But why doesn't Socialism work? My theory is, because like any political ideal, although the ideals are good, put man into the equation, and you will inevitably have problems. There is no known system we have yet created that has eradicated the ability for men with wrong motivations and wicked plans from infiltrating those systems, and I cannot imagine there ever will be. We consistently make the same mistake of assuming that in the places we don't safeguard against wrong doing, men will govern themselves to do the right thing. (Thatcherism was a good example of this.) But at least some political systems were designed with predominant altruistic concerns. I find Capitalism to be ruthlessly individualistic, at the detriment of society as a whole.

Still, Socialism needs a bit of a spruce up don't you think? Plug up a few holes? As does Christianity? Taoism has fared a little better so far.