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Fixations
& Social Harmony:
Guarding Light Against the Invisible
It
must be inherent in the nature of consciousness, in the nature
of the ability to focus and to discern complex patterns, that
certain fixations (on the pleasurable and the undesirable alike)
will take hold. Fixations within the mind, within one's world-view,
become more than preferences or tastes: they specifically serve
to engender a relationship with the world in which one's consciousness
feels more warranted in resting, because certain dangers have
been weeded out, as certain knowledge has been established.
What
may be most vital to this examination of psychological totems
and social structures is this notion of the bifold will of intelligent
consciousness to labor endlessly and to rest. Within this dual
tendency, the individual crisis of self-knowledge and the will
to exert physical force over others can be traced to their source.
It may be the very nature of knowledge and the pursuit of knowledge,
the boundary between which is never wholly defined or even within
reach, that outlines the tendency among human beings to make assumptions,
almost with pleasure, which reduce interaction and by extension
understanding and harmony.
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