Neal Gabler

thumb|Neal Gabler in 2017 Neal Gabler (1950 – ) is an American journalist, historian and film critic. Quotes Life: The Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality (1998) Perhaps the biggest reason why intellectuals excoriated entertainment was that they understood all too well their own precariousness in a world dominated by it. For whatever the overt content of any particular work, entertainment as a whole promulgated an unmistakable theme, one that took dead aim at the intellectuals’ most cherished values. That theme was the triumph of the senses over the mind, of emotion over reason, of chaos over order, or the id over the superego, of Dionysian abandon of Apollonian harmony. Entertainment was Plato’s worst nightmare. It deposed the rational and enthroned the sensational and in so doing deposed the intellectual minority and enthroned the unrefined majority. p. 21 External links Category:1950 births Category:Living people Category:Journalists from Chicago Category:Historians from the United States Category:Film critics from the United States Category:University of Michigan alumni