During the
week, a man wake at 6 am,prepares his
breakfast, takes a shower, and goes out at 7 to work. On his way, he greets his neighbor that is sweeping
the sidewalk and ,sometimes he chats a
bit with her. He comes on his job just before 8. He is a teacher and
teachs in a school close his house. He welcomes some children and otheres
teachers and goes to his classroom. He knows every student by name and
also the problems of each and treats them according to their difficulties. In the staff room, the teachers talk about
very issues. After the work,everyone go to their houses. Some goes to take a
drink, others go to watch a movie,and some will chat to friends.
Each of these moments, situations, places and
people with whom we have contacts requires a different shade to deal with every
situation. In the course of a day, a man needs use many shades, otherwise
I will have to live isolated in a redoma. Some people use to say that
demonstrate what they really are. But what would be a person totally bare of social
masks? I think that would be the man in his state of nature, acting only
for their basic instincts. Wake up, urinate, defecate, eat, drink, fuck,
kill by a space and / or a food then
sleep. That would be the true man, without masks, honest and transparent.
Since man got out of his natural state to the state of civilization, he became
a user masks. The strongest used the shade of the strength to dominate the
weak, and the weaks used the guise of politeness not to be
slaughtered. Over time, the weaker realized he could use the mask of
persuasion to master the the strong physical. Then came the Social Masks
Just as there is an outfit for every occasion,
there is also a kind of personality for each situation, place and
person. In addition to our psychological and physical characteristics already formed by the time we create momentary
characteristics to present ourselves before the other. These momentary characteristics are called Social Masks They protect us from our
natural state and from natural state of other
They approach two strangers, turning them into known. Two bottle
caps protect the internal drink of each bottle so that
both don’t mix and don’t even meet. An
Ego avoids the other. It is the real,the universal, the all and for the All, there’s nothing but me. Then,
I use the mask of the humble ,of the
polite. I use the mask to please the
other that is using a reflex of
mine.
A common man
uses the client mask from one bank to talk to the manager of this bank. In
a bar with his friends,the same man uses another mask and
in his house will dress in father.Similarly,
the bank manager, the doctor and the bohemian friends will use various social
masks, depending on the situation and the person they’re talking to.
There are many
beings living in a man, so many masks to very situations. There is the
inner self, hidden by the social mask,
there is one that is seen by other and beliving that he is what the other is seeing in him. Similarly,
the other depends on the I to
know what type mask will use to socialize. So are we never
true? Surely, we have inside of us a lot of true beings,and who says that
someone has no personality takes into account a concept of the common sense and
has no scientific or philosophical foundation. After all, what we
really are?
If someone
asks me who I am, I have several answers: "I am Marcelo, son of Fortunato
and Celia, a graduate in Philosophy, poet, blogger, father of Klaus, uncle of
Tábata, in love with Jane Doe,a Pink
Floyd’s fan ,customer of a supermarket, invited in a party, spectator of a play,
etc. There are several answers to this only question; various settings for
Marcelo Maia Gomes.But which of these is my unmasked PERSONALITY? Which of these
personalities were not formed from my association with the other and from an outside living? All personalities are malleable and adaptable to
moment; all of them are just convenience masks. Even, who says expose
what's inside, depends on the other to such exposure.
For Sartre, the other is the mirror for
the individual and that defines our intersubjectivity according to the
situation, time and place and the other, that is before me is my influence and I’m him. If I am
talking to a religious person, my conscience determines how I can or how I can’t
to do. It knows the consequences if I
take myself as an atheist and, just as the religious prepares internally to try
to persuade me of the existence of God . Choose, then, what masks we will
dress. That’s true, I make the mask of other and the other defines my mask.
Those masks
become the individual multiple selves , which often come
into conflict, causing a divided conscience, incriminating each other hypocrites. But
what is hypocrisy but a social mask that we wear to protect and hide our self? After all, who are we? A
being endowed with characteristics or a human that reflects the image of
the other , which in turn reflects the image of the self? Is there an internal and secluded existence or every existence
depends on the outside to be?
The SELF is the person,
the PERSONALITY that it hides behind various selves. The SELF is the intact part of being
human, which the other should only know as little as
possible. Nobody knows the our SELF,
are the selves, dresses Social Masks, and we need
to use these masks to present in front of the other , because we need
it. I am the strange to the other and it is strange to me, so we use
disguises to the family we seem to each other.
Hugs
Marcelo Maia Gomes
Degree in Philosophy from CEUCLAR
Marcelo Maia Gomes
Degree in Philosophy from CEUCLAR
