Join me as I sit down with activist, DEI-alternative start-up entrepreneur, and musician Chloé Valdary (@chloevaldary @theoryofenchantment @beatsbyparadox), and we discuss her Theory of Enchantment as an alternative approach to DEI that doesn't dehumanize anyone or assume anyone's lived experience (read: white people). We then delve deeper into how the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was actually the impetus that inspired her to create the Theory of Enchantment — waaaay before 10/7.
Unique as well about the Theory of Enchantment approach is that it incorporates music and pop culture; so, naturally, we pivot to some of her own, including an original song Chloé wrote about the sophisticated (and in my opinion, hilarious) paradox of the words "Israel" and "Jihad" actually having the same meaning.
"Israel, Palestine, Wrestle, Strive"
All the things that I said, they're a'coming, they're a'coming
All the things that I read, they're a'coming, they're a'coming
All the words that I wrote down, they're a'coming, they're a coming.
I'm gonna wrestle
With my ego
Call me Israel!
Call me Jihad!
Oh wait, that's a fabulous paradox
They both mean wrestle,
Yeah I wrestle!
Said I'm gon' wrestle
With my ego!
Call me Israel!
Call me Jihad!
Wait what a sophisticated paradox
I know, I, I,
Made it,
I'm coming for you!
I'm coming for you!
Tired of your foolishness
I heard a long time ago
They said you were brothers!
You had the same father
and different mothers.
I heard a long time ago
There was a family feud
Ishmael, Isaac!
I'm calling on, calling on you!
What a sophisticated paradox!
What a fascinating paradox!
What a sophisticated paradox!
I'm coming for you, I'm coming for you!
https://www.theoryofenchantment.com/
https://soundcloud.com/beatsbyparadox/
