Frankl-y Speaking

Man's Search for Meaning showed me a very different view on the Holocaust.  I was used to reading books like "Number the Stars," "Night," or "The Diary of Anne Frank." These books showed me what the Holocaust was like in a more censored way than how it was described in Frankl's book.  Never did these other books explain how Jews were turned against Jews (the Capo's for example) and were not as graphic in detail and in the horror that Frankl's book describes.  Also, I found it very interesting how Frankl used these experiences to develop his own method of psychotherapy, logotherapy, that focuses on the future to calm people and show them how thier lives are meaningful, considering that Frankl himself has quite a lot to look back upon in his past, and still looks to the future.  I also really liked his idea of a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast to complement the Statue of Liberty in the east. I googled the current plan to build this statue in San Francisco bay (which at the moment is being developed, but with little funds) and got some pretty cool pictures of what is trying to be built. It would be two hands clasped together, working together (the hands are pretty much replicas of the Statue of Liberty's hand holding the torch). The idea that with freedom and liberty, we need responsibility is a great one, and I really like the idea of building this project.