Mustafa Abu Aaliyah

Life is dynamic

I don’t see the world in terms of who has power and thereby is bad. I look at life as a dynamic between different things where each thing can have several different values depending on its prerequisites, causes and potentials. The ideal society for me is the one in which those with power appreciate those without power and those without power appreciate those with power. That to me is the true and realistic power balance. It is a society that I aspire to and a state that I embody as I wish to be the change I want to see myself. And I see the fruit of it constantly.

Therefore, I am also against today’s blind implementation of inclusion. To mean that everything must be as inclusive as possible and that inclusion must come before everything and be at the top of the list, then you remove the dynamic that lead to different things. If you take away the dynamic then, in my view, you take away the essence or expression of life. Not least people’s possibility to see and relate to things as they are; the possibility to choose preferences and what is right for themselves.

Inclusion can be rewarding to talk about on a general level, but to apply it in every single situation and person is contrived, coercive and obliterating. Life takes different forms. At work one time, it was said to my colleagues on the break who sat in different groups and conversed about various topics and things, that all needed to sit in one single large ring in order to be ”inclusive”.

As a result, all conversations where disrupted and the genuine, rightful and true diversity dissolved, along with the buffet-like atmosphere. This is an example of blind implementation.