Commentary Hollywood long ago made violence profitable, cranking out “entertainment” every year that has become increasingly graphic and realistic. It also never tires of using its products to lecture the rest of us on favourite “woke” issues such as diversity, racism, homophobia, and climate change. Yet concerns that depicting excessive violence might pose a long-term threat to the mental well-being not only of children but also of adults are dismissed by studio executives whose only eye is on the bottom line. Tinsel Town is also too wrapped up in its own narcissism to deal promptly with egregious examples of violent behaviour on its own studio lots. And so, steeped in its own make-believe world, the celebrity audience at this year’s Oscars ceremony at first thought the slap actor Will Smith delivered across Chris Rock’s jaw was all part of the night’s entertainment. Perhaps inured to violence because of routine on-screen …