the soup parable: the neighbor outside the equation — Reconfiguration in miniature — "saddle him with my greed’s waste…"
saddle him with my greed’s waste, all under some sham-arrangement of quote Interdependence that’s really just a crude nationalist scheme to indulge my own U.S. individual pleasure-lust without the complications or annoyance of considering some neighbor’s own desires and interests.
Context
The parable's payload, and the pickup's core: the American's utilitarian calculus extends mutual respect only within "the community," so a "hapless Canadian, foreign, 'un autre'" falls outside it — free to be bonked and robbed, then handed "my greed's waste... under some sham-arrangement of quote Interdependence." Steeply says it himself: Interdependence is "a crude nationalist scheme to indulge my own U.S. individual pleasure-lust" while offloading the waste onto the neighbor. The soup parable is the Reconfiguration in miniature — the whole Concavity gift compressed into a dirty bowl passed to the man outside the equation.