Welcome to the Commune podcast. My name is Jeff Krasno.

How many of you may receive my weekly Sunday commusing article where I address a breadth of issues from the spiritual to the sociopolitical.

And on occasion, I will also record an audio version of these articles and release it here as a bonus episode.

So today's episode includes two commusings that I scrawled over this past summer,

the first of which is titled True Wealth.

And the other is a window into my relationship with my better three quarters, titled

How to Sale a Relationship.

Okay, so here's the first one.

True wealth.

The rooster crows, or rather, the cat jumps on my face.

I stumbled to the closet, fetch my phone, and open my aura ring app.

My sleep score is a 92.

Well, I must be well rested then. Thank heavens for this wearable, for how else would I know if I had gotten enough sleep? The need to check one's sleep score is a modern reflection of a broader human

endeavor. Across the ages, humans have created metrics and measurements to get our arms around the world, to gauge success, and to better prophesies.

Now, these symbols pervade every corner of life.

We can ascertain the ambient temperature by measuring the expansion of mercury in a glass tube.

This metric is socialized through a number on the

Fahrenheit or Celsius scale. Now, I won't argue that symbols aren't helpful, but they are not

what they say they are. They are symbolic, representative of some underlying reality.

As Alan Watts often quipped, humans too often confuse the map with the territory and the menu with the food.

You don't visit a cartological coordinate.

You visit a town with denizens and cafes and taverns.

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