LUXURY BELIEFS: Has social class shaped your mind?
This Jungian Life Podcast
Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart, Lisa Marchiano
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2024
⏱️ 117 minutes
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Summary
What unconscious beliefs alienate us from those who are less privileged and what can we do about it?
Rob Henderson, author of the best-selling book "Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class," explores the concept of "Luxury Beliefs." Raised in poverty by a drug-addicted mother and navigating a series of painful foster care homes, Henderson found outward success through the military, Yale, and Cambridge but never resolved his inner suffering. His self-reflection led him to identify "Luxury Beliefs," attitudes prevalent among his affluent peers that serve as social status indicators rather than practical principles. These beliefs, such as dismissing traditional marriage, advocating laissez-faire parenting, and drug decriminalization, are manageable for the wealthy but destabilize poorer communities. By understanding luxury beliefs, society can foster empathetic conversations across socioeconomic lines, ultimately recognizing that the upbringing and environment we provide for children shape our future culture.
Prepare to discover what hidden socioeconomic doctrines influence our beliefs, how affluent philosophical tenets shape societal norms and affect different social classes, which beliefs serve more as status symbols than practical principles, whether luxury beliefs genuinely injure the impoverished, why understanding these concepts can foster empathy, bridge cultural divides, and inspire positive policy changes…and so much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this Jungian life. |
| 0:03.0 | Three good friends and Jungian analysts, Lisa Marciano, Deborah Stewart and Joseph Lee, |
| 0:09.0 | invite you to join them for an intimate and honest conversation that brings a psychological perspective to important issues of the day. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm Lisa Marciano and I'm a youngian analyst in Philadelphia. |
| 0:22.0 | I'm Joseph Lee and I'm a youngian analyst in Philadelphia. I'm Joseph Lee and I'm a youngian analyst in Virginia Beach, Virginia. |
| 0:27.0 | I'm Deborah Stewart, a youngian analyst on Cape Cod. God. Hello listeners and welcome once again. |
| 0:41.0 | Today we have with us a guest. His name is Rob Henderson and he is the |
| 0:47.5 | best-selling author of a book entitled Troubled, a memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class. |
| 0:56.3 | He grew up in foster homes in Los Angeles and the rural town of Red Bluff, California. He enlisted in the Air Force at the age of 17 and subsequently attended Yale University or Yale College on the GI Bill and was then awarded the Gates Cambridge scholarship to study at |
| 1:16.1 | the University of Cambridge in England where he obtained a PhD in psychology in 2022. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, |
| 1:29.7 | amongst other outlets, and his newsletter is sent each week to more than 50,000 subscribers. |
| 1:37.0 | So with all that, welcome Rob. |
| 1:41.0 | Thank you. Thank you, Dad. |
| 1:43.0 | Thanks, Lisa and Joseph. |
| 1:44.0 | It's great to be here. |
| 1:45.0 | Well, I had your book on my virtual nightstand for a long time, Rob. |
| 1:51.0 | I've been looking forward to its publication and then I follow you on what |
| 1:56.4 | used to be called Twitter and notice that you were you were reading some young and I thought well this this is going to be a really |
| 2:04.7 | interesting conversation so I I thought we could kind of talk about the |
| 2:09.0 | intersection of your interests your research interests and and what you've been writing on in the past several years, |
| 2:15.4 | as well as your personal experience, and Union Psychology and see what veins there are to mind there. |
| 2:23.0 | Yeah, sure. I mean, it's, it's, I've been sort of dipping in and out of Jung for maybe the last year, year and a half, |
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