class, conspicuous consumption, and our contradictions

LIVING PHILOSOPHY by yun shu · Jul 20, 2026 · 32m

This week, we moved from the spiritual to the material plane. I’m so grateful for the open minds who sit with these concepts each Sunday morning, and for the kind feedback.

Listeners online, thank you for tuning in – and a new essay and announcement is coming out next week :)

Timestamps

00:00 landing in the body08:48 theme 1: a primer on karl marx and bell hooks on class17:07 prompt 118:06 theme 2: class signalling and upward mobility22:57 prompt 224:06 key concepts: commodity, class consciousness, false consciousness25:40 imagining another way27:55 closing

Reflective Writing Prompts

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