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Folks, Ben Lee has something to say.
Apparently – and, may I take the opportunity to note how genuinely striking it is that nobody has ever discovered this before – human beings are unkind to each other. They are this way for a number of reasons, Ben Lee posits: sometimes because they are chasing money and sometimes because they’re chasing fame.
But here’s the kicker: sometimes people aren’t unkind to each other. This is the case because they understand, as Ben Lee does, that there is more to life than money and fame. In fact, as Ben Lee has it, the world is actually bigger than you and I. Ben Lee has many songs about this on his new album, songs like ‘Bigger Than Me’ that – get this – suggest that if more people were like Ben Lee, there would be less grief in general.
Given Ben Lee’s discovery, then, a Nobel Peace Prize is surely incoming. How satisfying it is to learn that Ben Lee isn’t the self-righteous bore we always assumed, but is instead a genuine martyr.
And how fitting that it was Ben Lee himself who showed us the light, and definitively proved that the entire Ben Lee discography shouldn’t be ceremonially buried at a crossroads come next full moon.
