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Falling (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠necessarily our normal, everyday mode of existing. But not all moments are normal and everyday.

Falling (n.) into ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠lostness has its source in finitude: thrown toward death, Dasein flees, and the present leaps away from its own future and past.

Falling (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠Dasein's tendency to sink into its world and read itself by the world's reflected light — and to fall prey to its tradition at the same time.

Falling (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not evidence against human freedom but the most elemental evidence for it: only a being whose own being is at stake can fall.

Falling (n.) does ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not extinguish our contact with things; it uproots it — things still show themselves, but as semblance, disguised by idle talk, curiosity and ambiguity.

Falling (n.) [Verfallen] ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠is not man's moral or secularized Fall but a forgetting of the truth of Being for the sake of the crowding press of beings.

Falling (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a flight into the 'at-home' of publicness — a flight from the not-at-home, the uncanniness that lies in being thrown and delivered over to oneself.

Falling (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a tendency to get absorbed in the entities that we encounter in the present world. It is typical of everydayness.

Falling (n.) has ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠three distinguishing marks — temptation, tranquillization and alienation — and everyday being-toward-death is a constant flight from death made of all three.

Falling (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠Dasein's tendency to understand itself by way of things — which is why it calls the ego a res, a substance, and why original time gets covered over by a naked string of nows.

Falling (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠necessary for our routine functioning, but we tend to indulge in falling even when we have an opportunity for a non-routine, profound, but disconcerting experience.

Falling (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠factical life's built-in tendency to slide away into the objective meanings of the world around it, until even the self is experienced as an object — a personality, an ideal type.

Falling (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠no 'night view' of human beings, no dark side; far from determining our nocturnal side, it constitutes all our days in their everydayness.

Falling (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the movement or direction of everyday Being-in-the-world. Everyday Dasein exists as a they-self, and is wrapped up in what it is doing, which it understands in a superficial and conventional manner.