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I'd never really given her any thoughts until now. However I read an article by her recently, or quotes from her recently and I have to say some of our beliefs overlap.
Valence came to fame in Australia with TV show Neighbours. My opinion of this show since early childhood until now has always been one of certain certainty and I always thought it was rubbish. Try going up to a French person and asking them if they like Lord of the rings movie or something. They won't.
One of my buddies is an Australian tv producer and I generally think 96% of Australian tv is absolute rubbish. I don't let that get in the way of my opinion of this fellow one whit. In fact many things are rubbish: like driving a bus.
In other words, I'm not in Holly Valence's target audience for her music or theatre stuff however this doesn't close my mind to anything positive I think she might have to offer.
Valence married a billionaire. Yes a billionaire. Newsflash, if you prick a billionaire he or she still bleeds. Like Shakespeare's Shylock, billionaires have feelings too. They're just people. Anyone's opinion can matter.
Differentiating carrying weight to mattering (is that a word?) I'm remembering walking through a tunnel or the like in Guangzhou China in 2005 or late 2004 perhaps. I'd probably already met my wife briefly over the course of a month, seeing her daily on weekdays in the classroom as one of the students, a 21 year old woman in Bulgaria. She wasn't on my mind despite swapping a few emails and a friendly date with no kisses or hand holding. It was the people in the tunnel, thousands of Chinese people everywhere. All their opinions mattered. However their opinions had little weight. China not being a democratic country.
What Valence says that resonates with me, "everyone starts out a left winger but then you start making money, having kids, building your business, and you realise their ideas are dopey." I'm paraphrasing there but that's the main gist. As the Australians like to say, she's not wrong. Of course there are more nuances. NYC is a case study in left wing politics that goes beyond this paradigm and there are many nuances to right wing policies too.
I would think with Valence's partner, the billionaire, with whom she had two kids, a huge commitment, his interest in right wing politics would mostly rest in tax minimisation. I never heard billionaires saying that they want to pay 50% taxes like in France. They'd rather manage their own money like anyone else.
Pivoting to another topic apart from the wisdom of Valence. Why do people feel entitled to offer their opinions openly and unasked for? Obviously if you're like Valence part of your career is PR, dealing with the media, having an agent or publicist. You might need to deal with the media regularly to enable your business schemes. Even just if you're a billionaire like Valence's partner. Now the media is reporting their marriage is on the rocks however it's difficult to know the facts from the media and like all brains, we filter in or out relevance based on difficult to understand brain chemistry psychological principles often with zero regards to reality. And that's not even mentioning the heart. Which we'll get to in a moment.
Returning to Valence's comments, incredibly sensible and intelligent regarding the lefties and wokeism.
Obviously I'm offering my unsolicited opinions here on my blog. In the case of a billionaire that could get you sued for defamation right? But more generally, have you ever noticed folks around you offering their opinions? Probably women more so acting bitchily but men too, also acting bitchily. Maybe I should start selling T-shirts. One of them should say, Please don't offer me your dopey opinions.
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Is the baby from Australia y'all?
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