the Concavity Cabinet: give it away — territory as exportable waste-resource — "It’s a novel and pro-active resource…"
It’s a novel and pro-active resource no prior statesman’s had the vision or environmental cojones to envision. If there’s one natural resource we’ve still got in spades, it’s territory.
Context
Experialism's doctrine in Tine's own words: the solution is to "give away the whole benighted smirch of ground," reconceiving territory itself as "a novel and pro-active resource" — the one thing the U.S. has "in spades." This is the theme's core inversion: land is no longer the nation's body but its surplus waste, a resource valuable precisely because you can export it. Statehood redefined as the capacity to shed ground.