Efficiency demands that we always pursue the best option available. It asks: Can you use this time more productively? Is this the best person you can marry? Can’t my child do better than this? Is this the best career for me? Is looking at this tree a good use of my time when I haven’t emailed my manager yet? But that’s precisely the point. The reign of technique robs us of the gifts God gives us and leaves us in an inhuman environment. We aren’t free to love anything because there’s always something else. But if we are not our own, then there can be (and are!) higher values than efficiency,
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