Everyday Fears And Modern Life Norman Pohoretz Analysis

On October 1971, Norman Podhoretz published an article in Commentary magazine titled, “Doomsday Fears and Modern Life.” In the article, according to the author: because of the destructiveness impact of the apocalyptic viewpoint, we must accept the, “Third alternative as a viable human possibility that the world has seen and inferior to others but in any case a viable possibility and a natural one” (6). In his introduction, he briefly gives the over-arching definition of apocalyptic thinking, which in his judgement is that, “The human species has reached a point at which it is about to destroy itself altogether and quite possibly the entire planet” (1). In regard to the topic of apocalyptic thinking, after he gave a quick definition of the phrase