Coach Schtitt and the ideology of experialist waste — a partisan's reading

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texture · background, recalled

When: background — Schtitt's early support for Gentle's grass-roots campaign (pre-O.N.A.N.); the gloss is standing
What: A single load-bearing character gloss on the thread's core idea: E.T.A.'s Coach Gerhardt Schtitt was one of Gentle's earliest campaign faithful, but (per Mario) his attraction was less politics than tennis philosophy — swept away by "the athleto-Wagnerian implications of Gentle's proposals for waste, this business of sending from yourself what you hope will not return." The line names the thread's animating metaphor: experialism (Concavity, catapults, ATHSCME fans) as a nation trying to expel what it cannot bear to keep. See the Schtitt timeline and the E.T.A. thread.