thresholdtheory

The “illusion of infinite mediation” is not just about visibility. It’s about saturation. The illusion is not that media is present, it’s that it is everywhere, all the time, and ontologically unresolvable.Mediation is not the lens through which we look at the environment. It is the environment.

Ferrari is unlike any other racing team. It is a national institution, a cultural myth, and a global symbol. Success at Ferrari requires more than pace: it demands emotional loyalty, symbolic immersion, and alignment with an ethos that values suffering, redemption, and communal identity.

I’ve come to believe that these angled relationships, the 45-degree ones in particular, are among the most powerful. They’re not competitive. They’re not redundant. They’re parallel but tilted. Close enough to share DNA. Distant enough to bring fresh, oblique insight. And it’s completely possible to build these kinds of connections intentionally, outside of love or friendship. In your professional life, your academic networks, your creative collaborations.