28 March

I’m so bored by rock stars and music more generally. Also why I’m so critical of gig culture. The reason we have no kids doing subjects like maths or science now is that all of our role models are fucking musicians. And it doesn’t change as people age, people well into middle-age and beyond are obsessed with their favourite bands and artists. I love music, but it has its place, and I’m not going to have the same interests in my mid-50s as I did when I was 17. The real heroes of modern life are engineers and scientists. I used to spend hours as a kid looking at photos of the different space missions. We went to space! Just staggeringly remarkable, even today. Doesn’t even register now, people are more excited by gigs. We’re trapped inside perpetual adolescence. It’s not just space travel, the technologies of the modern world are almost beyond belief. We awake from our gig slumber only to spruik technologies like petrol and diesel cars, technologies more than 250-years-old. Which is why kids don’t study science and maths. They have no role models there. Asia *is* passionate about these things, which is why they’re not only building the world we all enjoy, they’re going to be running it very shortly.