das Man  (the They) the internalized external ,the guide to conduct and thought about self and other, albeit in a state of blind obedience and absolute un-reflective conformity to social convention, as argued by Heidegger: but if Dasein is, in fact, a questioning being, a being questioning it own existential situation, searching for authenticity or simply questioning its own nature, the questioning of the internalized value of everydayness is an inevitability, and so Heidegger’s not so benign description of das Man . The super-ego of Freud is its corollary. But the stage is set for the search for authenticity, prima facie, by the very existence of Dasein as being. Heidegger makes das Man, very nearly, a paranoid fantasy of sinister control by the other: this being fully congruent with his Political Romanticism and its war on civic republican virtue as practiced in the West.