A review by tessarose257
Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything by Viktor E. Frankl

reflective fast-paced

3.0

There were good things and bad things in here. The good, that we should all embrace life and that every life is meaningful. The bad, well, it’s a bit complicated. But essentially, that we should all shoulder a responsibility for the world and that we need education (good propaganda) to teach us how. He mixed up personal and worldly responsibility constantly. So that they could not be pulled apart. I think individual responsibility is far better and more powerful. Otherwise we all just become activists hellbent on controlling others. So… this isn’t his best work, and considering that this was fresh off from when he was liberated, I can tell, because it reads a bit bitter mixed in with an euphoric spirit for the future. Also, the introduction was absolute garbage! He took the worst parts of the book and highlighted them as good. Which goes to show my point. Educational “good” propaganda, used to keep people in line for a moral responsibility, for the collective good (this is sounding like communism!), is not going to benefit society, but swing it back into tyranny. For my sarcastic comment: I guess all Germans think the same, just depends on who’s pointing the gun… Anyway, Man’s Search for Meaning is a great book. And I suggest you read that one rather than this one.