http://pauljacobson.disqus.com/blogger. evangelist. mavenenFri, 23 May 2008 01:59:19 -0000http://pauljacobson.org/2008/05/23/south-africans-lobsters-in-a-boiling-pot/#comment-1674554<p>Brilliant! My sentiments exactly. Victor Frankl coined a phrase "Tragic Optimism" - but it assisted many Jews to survive the horrors of Nazi oppression. Sadly, for 6 million it held no bearing. Still, the tenacity of human beings to survive and pull through remains astonishing.</p><p>It is definately not an issue of a small band of savages - that's to easy. We are tearing at the moral fibre of South African society.</p>EmilFri, 23 May 2008 01:59:19 -0000http://pauljacobson.org/2008/05/23/south-africans-lobsters-in-a-boiling-pot/#comment-5859990<p>Brilliant! My sentiments exactly. Victor Frankl coined a phrase "Tragic Optimism" - but it assisted many Jews to survive the horrors of Nazi oppression. Sadly, for 6 million it held no bearing. Still, the tenacity of human beings to survive and pull through remains astonishing.</p><p>It is definately not an issue of a small band of savages - that's to easy. We are tearing at the moral fibre of South African society.</p>EmilFri, 23 May 2008 01:59:19 -0000