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POPSA subtle distinction
I have just read a book by Victor Frankl in which he recounts something of his experiences in Auschwitz and Dacchau. His aim, however, was not so much narration of history, personal or otherwise, but to build a philosophy of living from the ground up. In this case, the ground were the direst circumstances I can imagine - you are reduced to a number, what labour you can give is squeezed out of you so that you can die emptied and exhausted. Even here, according to Frankl (and I must take his word for it), you are still left with one freedom, that of choosing your attitude to your circumstances. He didn't think of himself as a victim - what he was living through was merely the choice that he could make between accepting the role imposed on him or not. He was not a victim because he did not. In asserting his freedom to make that choice, he escaped the role of victim as well as that of number. Lincoln's turn from the objective to the subjective here is as great a victory on the same field.
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