Schtitt & Mario's walk: junior athletics as sacrifice of the self
jr. athletics was about learning to sacrifice the hot narrow imperatives of the Self [...] to the larger imperatives of a team (OK, the State) and a set of delimiting rules (OK, the Law).
Context
Schtitt's Kanto-Hegelian pedagogy substance: the drilled body learns citizenship by "learning to sacrifice the hot narrow imperatives of the Self" — the appetitive will — to a team and a set of "delimiting rules." This is E.T.A.'s account of what the regimen is training, the athletic body as a school for gratification-delay and self-subordination. (The nation-critique clauses — the experialist waste-exporting State, the "sloppy intersection of desires and fears" — route to nationalism-onan, who took the political frame; the hedge-register is irony-sincerity's. OURS is the athletics-as-self-sacrifice pedagogy. See Routed.)