Latter Day Sinner

I’ve been discussing Victor Frankl with my wife Stephanie and we’ve been arguing over what it means to be free. I hate to admit it but she’s more libertarian these days than I am. She sees only a very broad definition of freedom as freedom at all. This is a huge contrast to Frankl who when every personal freedom that could be taken of him was taken, he found in the concentration camp that he still had the freedom to think. He could live with a purpose in his head if nowhere else. I’ve seen a similar story of a prisoner of war being held in Hanoi. The prison camp was brutal and he was kept in solitary confinement when he wasn’t being tortured. When he was alone he started building a motorcycle in his head. He put it together piece by piece in mentally and then took it apart again. It kept him sane. He had the freedom to think and that can never be taken away.