Being in the business of love is also known as prostitution

Judd Apatow, the producer of Anchorman and cowriter of The 40 Year Old Virgin, kept a diary/blog over at Slate this week, and on his last entry, he ended up writing this insipid little pile of word dung that exemplifies everything that's wrong with Hollywood liberals:

This current administration is the wet dream of American corporations because Bush and company believe that business is the answer to all problems, not love. Have you ever heard anyone from this administration talk about how the citizens of this world need to join together and remember that we need each other? They laugh at that kind of talk. But putting the hammer down does not work in all situations, and all we have done is show the world that we can be defeated. And that leads to more countries thinking they can have nuclear weapons because we are not the almighty USA anymore; we are the guys who can't even control Iraq.

Love, not business, eh? Previously in the post, Apatow wrote about how people would much rather watch celebrity gossip than talk about issues like terrorism, because if we focused on what city might blow up next we'd all be too afraid to leave our homes and nothing would ever get done – more problematically, though, he’s buying into that idea as a good (or at least better) solution to world problems. Essentially, Apatow's moronic solution is to ignore any real problems in favor of vacuous soap opera.

It’s an appeal to ignorance, and one that’s typical of the Hollywood community. While Apatow may have some genuine frustration about the state of world affairs at the root of his outburst, much of this sort of talk comes as a result of the fact that Hollywood, as the chief peddler of vapid distraction, serves to make a truckload of money. Maybe Apatow needs to find a new line of work that matches more closely with his values; Hollywood, it seems, isn’t about love, but business.