Fixation

What is fixation? Fixation can be a stubborn, atavistic, romantic, and desperate hold onto a condition that never was -- and never will be. Fixation is that unyielding worship of a perfectible object, possible through a determined decision not to confront an existent human condition. Fixation yearns for confirmation and meaning. It desperately wants to believe that cosmic unity manifests itself at single percievable point - represented by an old man in the sky, a pair of supple breasts, the pure green of virgin pastures, or a lost garden blessed by blissful ignorance. But cosmic unity, if such a phenomena is at all possible, cannot be perceived, possessed, or grasped by a single One. Unity is lived in life between us and the world -- it requires a bold and courageous move into unknown horizons, not simply passing into contemplative purity. When fixated upon the idol, the object of affection and reverence, one is blinded to lived truth. The dream inspires but satisfies only individual delusion. Dreams are actualized, however imperfectly, in the life between human beings -- driving human becoming rather than fixating on Being. For no eternal form can satisfy the need for human becoming, since becoming is a transformative address of a world in flux. Fixation is a beautiful wax figure, that will be nothing more than what it appears. It cannot move. It cannot challenge facile judgments. It only reaffirms false perception and prejudice.