In praise of inefficiency
Among the many buzzwords of our age, efficiency is one of the most binding. Nearly everything is being brought to the Tribunal of Measured Efficiency, where verdicts are passed by the wigged magistrates of Speed, Cost and Outcome, the Triumvirate of the industrial and postindustrial ages.
An efficiency inquest may also be conducted against language. Agai…
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