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an Ecclesiastical approach to Allostatic Regulation.
What do I mean by that?
The book of Ecclesiastes is in the Bible and includes a lot of “meaninglessness” and “vanity”. It explains that there is a season for everything and the song “turn turn turn” is taken from the third chapter of the King James. It was written by Pete Seeger in the late 1950s and The Byrds immortalized the song (says the Madison of Contemporary Art) in 1965. When I see the words “for everything” I hear the chord progression as naturally as if the chords were written before the Bible.
“Pete Seeger composed “Turn! Turn! Turn!” in 1959 in response to a letter from his publisher. “Pete,” it read, “can’t you write another song like ‘Goodnight, Irene’? I can’t sell or promote these protest songs.” (“Goodnight, Irene” was actually written/adapted by Lead Belly, but Seeger had popularised it with The Weavers.) The response from the rabble-rousing troubadour was predictably defiant. “You better find another songwriter,” Seeger wrote. “This is the only kind of song I know how to write.””