stephen manderson is much better known as rapper professor green. hit records, the awards and the rewards, couldn't ultimately mask his own inner pain. but he chose to speak out. he is determined to break the taboos around mental health. so, can we all learn from professor green? cheering and applause. thank you. stephen manderson, professor green, welcome to hardtalk. thanks for having me. i've got to start by asking, how are you? because people who follow you closely know that you were about to go on a national tour. yes. you then had an accident and you fractured bones in your neck. so how are you doing? yeah, i'm all right, that's my answer and i'm sticking to it. but you're not in a neck brace. no, i think the way they described it is that it wasn't structural, it was a hairline fracture of my c7, which is high up, so we were quite worried initially, but i'm all right. i'm notjumping around yet but i'm probably doing better than they thought i would be. when i was introducing you, i was wondering whether to introduce you as stephen manderson or

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he says of all of them the best is democracy and at any point said exactly the flaws that manderson pointed out. if absent were a democracy for free men the poor would get together and take away the property the rich. well the same dilemma they had opposite solutions aristotle proposed what we would nowadays call a welfare state to try to reduce inequality. so the same problem that solutions one is reduce inequality will have this problem and the other is reduced democracy. if you look at the history of the united states it's a constant struggle between these two tendencies democratizing tendency that's mostly coming from the population pressure from below and you get this constant battle going on periods or gratian periods of progress in one thousand nine hundred six for example were a period of significant democratization. sectors in the fucking lation that were usually passive avocet it became organized a good story pressing their demand. and they became more and more involved in decision making and activism and so on. they just changed consciousness in ways. minority rights. we don't wa

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