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                           %EFFICIENCY VS DIVERSITY 770920

     Efficiency  is  the  enemy of  diversity.    Whenever
limited  resources  must be respected---diversity  must be
sacrificed.    Diversity is more resource consumptive than
is  conformity.    Conservation  of  scarce  resources  is
achieved  by  the  use of the most efficient ways.    This
eliminates the use of inefficient ways and  the  diversity
which inefficient ways contribute.  Inefficient organisms,
species, groups, organizations, life styles, institutions,
thought patterns, emotional patterns; these do not survive
in the face of scarcity.   When they cease,  diversity  is
diminished.  Efficiency is the enemy of diversity.

     Humanity    is   impoverished   without    diversity.
Diversity is valuable to people.   People can not be fully
human   without  diversity.    A   collection   of   human
conformists to the most efficient model of human behavior-
--would not be a humane society.   To make  efficiency the
ultimate  concern  is to destroy  humanity.    A   balance
between the demands of the reality of scarce resources and
the need for humanity must be chosen.

     Often  in the face of scarce  resources  people  have
chosen  to  sacrifice humanity in the name of the idol  of
efficiency.  Such idolatry is self defeating.   Selves are
defeated thereby.   The system is thus undermined and  the
system  does  not  survive.   The only systems  which  can
survive  are  the systems which  affirm  selves  and  thus
transcend themselves.  This comes not  so much via systems
analysis---as through a dedication to openness and honesty
about subjective intimate relationships.

     Subjective  intimate relationships demand the use  of
much  emotional  energy.    People  who do not  have  much
emotional energy are likely to choose more efficient  ways
of ordering  personal  interactions.   Their relationships
are often ordered according  to carefully planned laws and
institutional  arrangements.  Individuality is  sacrificed
in the name  of  the common welfare, rather than fulfilled
through the common welfare.

                                                                                                                               
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