My Business On Purpose

“If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment,” wrote Fyodor Dostoevsky, “all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.” Peter Segars wrote the sequence to one of the great wisdom lyrics in the history of folk rock in the late 1950s that would be recorded by The Byrds in 1965 and popularized as the theme music in Forest Gump, The Simpsons, and The Wonder Years. Some have called Turn, Turn, Turn a number one hit with the oldest lyrics.  Segars adapted the majority of the lyrics from the wisdom literature of the Jewish King Solomon’s writings in the Old Testament book Ecclesiastes. The Segars rendition ends just shy of Solomon’s powerful sequence that helps us understand the motive and the value of work. John Mark Comer in his well-reflected book Garden City says of our modern (primarily Western culture), “The American dream - which started out as this brilliant idea that everybody sh