Good and Wrong, or Good and Right
Efficiency. That is an important word in our times. You can’t avoid it. Surely you have heard about “Cyber Monday”. Where “Black Friday” had become a byword of a consumerist culture, “Cyber Monday” is a byword of the now culture, which is consumerism on steroids! Further convenience is not merely a want but an expectation, an assumed reality. But convenience comes at a price, which is paid in the efforts for efficiency. What are examples of these efforts, and what the price? To be efficient, one must always be concerned about time and the quantity of production. So Cyber Monday is by far an improvement on Black Friday if for no other reason than a greater mass of goods can be purchased in a shorter amount of time. But the conservation of time, as a concept, as an instinct, shows up in unexpected ways. When the hourly who reports to you has an issue and grabs your attention as you’re passing through, do you stop and give...