Cheer Up By Ira Chernus Summary

The Modern society is filled with fears ranging from random shootings to world wide infection, but one thing that does not cross the many minds of those living in the today’s world is the fear of the world simply coming to an end. Years of religion and science have not led anyone to feel that the end of the world is fast coming. In the article by Ira Chernus called “Cheer up, it’s just the end of the world” she goes into great detail about just how much the end of the world lacks fear. After expressing the downward slope that the world made in the sense of fearing their last minutes on earth, Chernus goes on to tell how the whole idea got started. The idea that the world could even come to an end has been long forgotten yet Chernus brings up the good point that “Apocalyptic stories have been around at least since biblical times, if not later”. Bringing up the fact that this is not just a modern day thought or idea, but that it has been around for hundreds of years shows that it is an idea that has been taken very seriously.