Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Uno

Me encanta la gente que habla en tercera persona pero con el pronombre "uno", es genial. Es frecuente de los policías, taxistas, etc., lo mejor es que el "uno" pretende dar impersonalidad a lo que se habla (para no sonar envidiosos o egoístas, qué sé yo), pero casi siempre ocurre que hablan de la subjetividad y no se puede hablar de generalidades.

Uno agradece su cortesía.

3 comments:

De-Scartes said...

uno está totalmente de acuerdo.
abstente de ver el pésimo filme: el hombre bicentenario.

Juan Manuel Escamilla said...

A mí me parece correcto. Es divertido. Yo reparé este fin de semana en algo que hago frecuentemente: cuando tomo un taxi -frecuentemente a los lugares pijos adonde voy: Santa Fe, Pedregal, Lomas, Interlomas, Polanco, etc.- me esfuerzo por mostrar que mi facha de fresa es sólo aparente: así que mento madres de los ricos y me quejo de lo pobre que soy, de que tengo que "chambiar", y digo mil veces que "está cabrón". Así me cobran considerablemente menos: me ven que soy "banda".

Anonymous said...

Heidegger refers to this concept of the One in explaining inauthentic modes of existence, in which Dasein, instead of truly choosing to do something, does it only because "That is what one does" or "That is what people do". Thus, das Man is a not a proper or measurable entity, but rather an amorphous part of social reality, that functions effectively in the manner that it does through this intangiblity.

'Das Man' constitutes a possibility of Dasein's Being, and so das Man cannot be said to be any particular someone. Rather, the existence of 'the They' is known to us through, for example, linguistic conventions and social norms. Heidegger states that, "The "they" prescribes one's state-of-mind, and determines what and how one 'sees'".

To give examples: when one makes an appeal to what is commonly known, one says "one does not do such a thing"; When one sits in a car or bus or reads a newspaper, one is participating in the world of 'the They'. This is a feature of 'the They' as it functions in society, an authority that has no particular source. In a non-moral sense Heidegger contrasts "the authentic self" (my owned self) with "the they self" ("my un-owned self")