When I wrote the article First World Problems, maybe I was a bit harsh on all those poor first-worlders. So that got me thinking: what can I do to give them a break? Suddenly I remembered Franz Kafka’s classic novel, The Trial, and I knew exactly what I had to do. The basic question is: what would our problems be like if we lived in Franz Kafka’s world of draconian bureaucratic oppression?
(Continued: Morning, Sleepy Head! at ALIL)
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First World Problems
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