"Weird Al" Yankovic, "First World Problems" from Mandatory Fun (The Last Angry Man)
Commentary: Today, during the lunchtime Mass at St. Matthew, Father James spoke eloquently on the "First World crosses" many of us bear, blind to the fantastical riches by which we are surrounded, & not just by Christian standards, but by any objective historical or even demographic measure. Anyone able to read these words on a desktop, a laptop, &/or a smartphone is the beneficiary of a material wealth unknown at any other time in human history, & in our own age unknown to the great teeming mass of mankind. We are abundantly blessed, every one of us, & yet we live like spiritual beggars, slaves to mammon & vanity just like the narrator of "First World Problems."
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