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https://tomluongo.me/2019/07/30/the-rock-dwayne-johnson-hiding-place/

Author: Tom Luongo

I really like Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. His work ethic, attitude and humility are an inspiration.

In an age when it seems every third person attached to the entertainment industry is a pedophile at worst and a scumbag at best, Johnson’s superhero persona on and off screen is exactly what this society needs.

And no one knows this better than Dwayne Johnson himself.

But even Dwayne Johnson is not immune to the toxicity of the Twitterati on both sides when it comes to politics. And his recent dust-up over a tweet about Boris Johnson reminds us that there truly is no hiding from the insanity that has gripped the online world.

“Breaking: PM Boris Johnson is in fact my cousin [though we clearly look more like twins],” the Hollywood actor tweeted. “Jokes aside, PM did say something in his speech I liked – ‘the people are our bosses’. 100% agree. The people/audience/consumer will always matter most. #ourboss.”

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson — deleted tweet 7/29/2019

Johnson knows that everyone goes to see his movies. His latest movie exists because he won’t work with Vin Diesel who Johnson feels takes his job for granted.

And, despite holding very strong opinions, he is always inclined to look for the positive in everything. It’s refreshing for a cynic like me to see that.

It’s also good PR. Conservatives watch movies. So do Marxists.

I don’t begrudge him that. It’s his business, his brand and his choice.

Taken at face value Dwayne Johnson said nothing objectionable. Taken cynically Dwayne Johnson said nothing objectionable.

But that’s no reason to let him off the hook by the perpetually offended Twitterati.

If anything, it’s the main reason he had to be attacked by a rabid and, frankly, insane Remain twitter mob who are so triggered, so ideologically possessed they can’t bear to hear someone they like condone something said by someone they despise, Boris Johnson.

Even if what was said was a basic tenet of polite and decent society: that if we have to suffer the indignity of government, that government should be our servant not our master.

It was particularly galling that it was said by a Prime Minister ‘elected’ by a super-minority of the British People. I get that.

But some things, like the Magna Carta, should transcend even Brexit…

Lesson to Dwayne: No matter how much you try to couch something in non-confrontational terms someone is looking to be offended. There are whole squads of people paid to be so offended, shape the narrative and drown out rationality.

For this reason and so many others Twitter is a terrible form of communication. It’s also a worse mechanism for societal change.

In fact, it’s the opposite of that. Sitting on your ass decrying Tory corporatism on your iPhone over your Vodaphone connection at a Starbucks is not a revolutionary act.

In fact, it’s the exact opposite. And it doesn’t matter if you’re the people who hate Boris Johnson and Brexit or the ones decrying Dwayne Johnson for deleting the tweet.

You’re all ineffectual narcissists trapped in the Matrix; doing the bidding of the worst people in the world who are supposed to work for you.

And that’s the thing everyone is searching for a hiding place from, their own lack of humanity and, more importantly, humility…

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