Schtitt's Old World critique: the experialist, waste-exporting nation
who can imagine this training serving its purpose in an experialist and waste-exporting nation that’s forgotten privation and hardship and the discipline which hardship teaches by requiring? A U.S. of modern A. where the State is not a team or a code, but a sort of sloppy intersection of desires and fears, where the only public consensus a boy must surrender to is the acknowledged primacy of straight-line pursuing this flat and short-sighted idea of personal happiness
Context
Experialism named as a national character, not just a territorial policy: the U.S. that exports its waste is the same U.S. that has "forgotten privation and hardship," so its polity dissolves from a "team or a code" into a "sloppy intersection of desires and fears" whose one shared value is the pursuit of private happiness. This is the theme's diagnosis of why the machine works the way it does — a state that cannot ask its citizens to surrender anything is a state that can only offload, gift away, and consume. (The tennis self-competition metaphysics is the-body-tennis's / maps-territory's; the defenseless-against-the-Entertainment reading is entertainment-self's; landed here is the political-frame only.)