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This-essay is a7709211.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %EFFICIENCY VS HUMANITY 770921 Efficiency is a technical concept/value. Efficiency involves measurement and computation. Efficiency can not be computed regarding subjective activities, except by coercing their essence into objective perspectives. Efficiency can not be computed for novel untried objective procedures--thus a preoccupation with efficiency undermines motivation to try new ways of coping with troublesome situations unresolved by traditional methods. Efficiency will cause technocrats to measure/compute comparisons among the traditional methods, rather than consider essentially different and possibly non-technical solutions to persistent problems and dilemmas. Since the efficiency of non-technical modes of coping may be un- calculable---technocrats may be reluctant to consider non- technical responses to dilemmas. An ultimate concern for efficiency prompts the elimination of diversity, because conformity to a most efficient procedure on the part of all people is perceived to the over-all most efficient group behavior. The perception may not be accurate, because the efficiency of a collection of INDIVIDUALISTIC efficient behaviors---may not be the most efficient group behavior when viewed in a broad context. Computations of efficiency are, however, usually carried out within an analytic framework in which the whole is always equal to the sum of the parts. In an era of scarcity efficiency with respect to specific resources may become an ultimate concern and that concern then carry over into an essentially different era when the specific resources are not so relatively scarce-- due to a different environment, changes in life styles, resource discoveries, resource substitutions, use improvements, etc. Thus each generation needs to examine the logic of valuing efficiency in each instance. Each time an appeal is made to efficiency---loving people need to ask what is to be accomplished by efficiency in the broadest terms, not in narrow technical terms. The ultimate concerns need to be articulated and the relevance of efficiency to the ultimate concerns made apparent. Unless this is done, an idolatry of efficiency may develop unawares, where efficiency is valued for its own sake as an ultimate value. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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