Jordan Stephens
Best known for being one half of hip hop duo Rizzle Kicks, musician Jordan Stephens is also an actor and TV presenter. His debut solo album, is out now
I’d destroy modern phones. Modern phones are too much.
Over the top. They feel necessary now but never were. I think a lot of technology peaked in the Nineties or early Noughties. And since then we’ve just been convinced we need stuff when we don’t. Right? We get tricked into feeling like we’re missing out when there was never an issue [in the first place].
[It’s] the opposite of the phrase,
“If it’s not broken don’t fix it.” Technologically speaking, we’ve been breaking loads of things that have been working fine and then charging people for the updates. I never watched television in my teens and thought, I wish this was more defined. To be honest, I was at peace with a CD Walkman.
And this new era has us hooked. And impatient. And wired. And I feel as though it pulls us from ourselves and our authentic beings and desire to connect.
I think we were happy walking to the shops. Weren’t we?
I’d ban billionaires. Some people have too much money. Genuinely.
It’s unnecessary. Do you know there are reasons to believe that the desire for accumulation is not actually an instinctive one? It appears to be mutation. An obsessive need to accumulate. If you replaced money with something else, that accumulation would instantly appear unhealthy. Look at this man who has 2 billion packets of crisps. Is he OK? Why has that woman got three billion leaflets?
Jokes aside, let’s re-engage our sense of community. Maintain the
Just jazz it all up. It’s bad enough that there are buildings absolutely everywhere. Might as well make them exciting.
All competition should be fair.
I worry about our modern values. We appear to be the only species that believes in unfair battle. Bring back duelling. Bring back sorting out issues through competition that can end respectfully. No ganging up. No foul play. Restore honour in surrendering and the acceptance of loss. There’s grace in defeat but only if there’s fairness to begin with. We need to feel part of something bigger than ourselves. Understand that we’re part of bigger stories. And find peace in that realisation. I think everybody has a part to play on this Earth. There should not be single soul on the planet that feels disorientated. We need to restore some balance.
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