Finding Your Job Meaningless?
From FOCUS ON THE FAMILY TODAY • Thursday • June 12, 2008 By Dr James Dobson A Russian novelist once wrote: “If you want to utterly crush a man, just give him work that’s of a completely senseless, irrational nature.” It’s true. In a concentration camp outside Hungary during World War II, Jewish prisoners were forced to move a mountain of dirt from one end of the compound to the other. The next day, they were told to move it back again. For weeks, this went on until one day, an old man began sobbing uncontrollably and he was led away by two captors. Days later, another man who had survived three years in the camp suddenly darted away from the group and threw himself on an electrified fence. In the weeks to come, dozens of prisoners just went mad, running from their work and eventually being shot by the guards. It was later learned that the cruel activity had been ordered by the commander as an experiment in mental health just to see what would happen when people are forced to do meanin...