Continental-authoritarian formation: the Gymnasium, "WE ARE WHAT WE WALK BETWEEN," and the sacrifice of the Self

pivotal · UNDATED (Schtitt's European boyhood/youth, B.S. era, pre-Unification)

• When: UNDATED (Schtitt's boyhood and young manhood in pre-Unification Europe, ordinary B.S. era; recalled/narrated without stamps)
• What: Schtitt was, "like most Europeans of his generation, anchored from infancy to certain permanent values" — Old World patriarchal stuff (honor, discipline, fidelity to some larger unit) that the narration concedes "may, admittedly, have a whiff of proto-fascist potential about them." He was educated in a pre-Unification Gymnasium under a "rather Kanto-Hegelian" idea that junior athletics was training for citizenship: learning to sacrifice the appetitive individual will to the larger imperatives of team (State) and rules (Law). His boyhood training facility carried a huge painted sign, "WE ARE WHAT WE WALK BETWEEN" — the maxim his own mentor was "pathologically devoted to" (per Orin, scene n234), and the philosophical seed of everything he later teaches at E.T.A. He finds the modern experialist O.N.A.N.ite U.S. "hilarious and frightening at the same time," a State that has "forgotten privation and hardship and the discipline which hardship teaches."