Looking for other threshold people

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I'm looking to connect with other threshold figures, people who don't fit neatly into conventional categories of culture, class, ethnicity, sexuality, profession, ideology, or identity. If you enjoy the work of Professor Jiang but disagree with some of what he concludes, keep reading.

Maybe like me you have always felt that mainstream academia sometimes buries knowledge beneath unnecessary complexity or gatekeeps it within credentialed classes whereas conspiracy theorists are overly simplistic. Maybe you, like me are driven by a desire to understand reality more deeply, but also in ways that remain practical and useful for everyone to understand, not just the educated and middle classes.

I'm currently developing a large interdisciplinary project: a heuristic framework for understanding reality, power, control, society, culture, economics, psychology, technology, and much more. It is a genuinely polymathic undertaking that seeks to identify common patterns across supposedly unrelated domains.

Many of history's most significant paradigm shifts emerged from thinkers who bridged disparate fields rather than specialising within a single one. In an age increasingly defined by narrow specialisation, I'm interested in recovering that broader mode of thinking and inquiry.

If any of this resonates with you, I'd be interested to hear from you and please also explain why you feel you are also a threshold person.

Why I consider myself a threshold figure:

I sit at the intersection of multiple worlds. I am university educated, yet I work in a traditionally working class, blue collar job. I am the child of an immigrant and have spent my life navigating between cultures, learning early on that what one group regards as perfectly normal, another may regard as strange, irrational, or even unthinkable.

I also find myself between different cosmological viewpoints. I have been shaped both by Western secularism and individualism, and by Eastern traditions that place greater emphasis on community, interdependence, and spirituality. Rather than viewing these perspectives as mutually exclusive, I am interested in what each reveals and obscures.

Perhaps because of this, I have become less interested in resolving contradictions and more interested in understanding them. I have come to suspect that reality itself resists clean categorisation. Every time we believe we have discovered a final explanation or final base layer, a deeper layer of complexity reveals itself. Boundaries that once appeared solid begin to blur. If this is true, then understanding reality requires more than expertise within established categories; it requires the ability to move between them. Perhaps reality itself is a threshold phenomenon, and many of its apparent contradictions are invitations to expand our frame of understanding rather than problems to be solved.

My suspicion is that many threshold figures develop a similar disposition: an ability to inhabit multiple perspectives at once, and a recognition that reality is often richer and more complex than the categories we use to describe it.

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