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		<h1>Keeping the faith when surrounded by surreality: Houston and D.C.</h1>
<h3>Marion Deal — Editor-in-Chief — mdea0704@csd99.org</h3>
<p><img data-attachment-id="369" data-permalink="https://theendeavornewspaper.com/opinion/rsz_surrealistic_times_deal/" data-orig-file="https://theendeavornewspaper.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/rsz_surrealistic_times_deal.png" data-orig-size="500,500" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="rsz_surrealistic_times_deal" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://theendeavornewspaper.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/rsz_surrealistic_times_deal.png?w=300" data-large-file="https://theendeavornewspaper.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/rsz_surrealistic_times_deal.png?w=500" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-369" src="https://theendeavornewspaper.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/rsz_surrealistic_times_deal.png?w=840" alt="rsz_surrealistic_times_deal.png" srcset="https://theendeavornewspaper.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/rsz_surrealistic_times_deal.png 500w, https://theendeavornewspaper.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/rsz_surrealistic_times_deal.png?w=150 150w, https://theendeavornewspaper.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/rsz_surrealistic_times_deal.png?w=300 300w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px" /></p>
<h6><em><strong>Illustration by Kate Sosnovsky</strong></em></h6>
<p><b>All political thoughts espoused here are those of the author, not of the interviewee: the story of Harvey is Kenney’s, the electoral overlay is Deal’s.</b></p>
<p>When I sat down with Asher Kenney to talk about his role as a citizen savior of people and valuables in post-Harvey Houston, I didn’t know that the first thing to come to mind for me would be the simple importance of voting in local elections and exercising one’s civic duty on forums other than the presidential.  Allow me to frame it in this way: Kenney was faced by a cataclysm of epic proportions and a danger to himself and those he loved, but even more so by a choice.  He could become bitter and withdrawn, deciding to ignore the situation and see the worst in those around him, or he could, in his words, “accept [the situation] and do something about it.”  Sound familiar?</p>
<p>After the agonizing hours of waiting for Harvey to hit, the eventual street flooding — when Kenney was out on a bike ride, the water first reached to his pedals, then quickly rose to his seat — and the decision to release water from the Addicks and Barker reservoirs to minimize chances of overflow, Houston was underwater.  Asher and his girlfriend’s uncle, Jeff, were canoeing through the water for 12 days: pulling people out of flooded homes, rescuing important documents and prized possessions — most notably the favorite dining chair of a Parkinson’s-afflicted man, which they pulled out at his wife’s behest — and providing “comfort for these people who had lost everything,” Kenney said.</p>
<p>This was surrealism charging headlong into reality in its most unfettered form — Jeff called his wife, who had been out of town when the hurricane hit and was prevented from returning by the storm, to notify her that “Dear, there’s fish swimming in your living room — is that a problem?”  But Kenney and Jeff didn’t pause to let the peculiarity of the situation overwhelm them.  “It just became the norm,” Kenney said, “almost two weeks of hanging out in the water every day.  On day nine we met these two guys who were helping us get people’s documents out of their homes.  They were in a big pickup truck, and they said ‘we’ll flip the tailgate down; why don’t we have some beers together?’  So we’re sitting on this tailgate of a truck in the middle of a residential street with these two new friends, drinking beer and having a blast three feet away from floodwater that just destroyed these Houston homes we’ve been saving.”  This was by no means an escapist measure: “It wasn’t a coping mechanism,” Kenney said.  “It was just part of helping people get back to normal, just what you do.  You take action.”</p>
<p>Fish making headway around the feet of living room chairs and an orange-tinted reality TV star sitting in the Oval Office are images that Dalí would have been proud to place side by side, but there’s one difference between Kenney’s narrative of hurricane relief and the post-election fallout that’s consumed much of this year’s political stage.  The proving ground for Kenney and his fellow do-gooders made itself clear immediately after the unthinkable event — “It was more difficult before the house flooded than afterwards,” Jeff said.  “There were nights of very terrible storming, and I was so worried that the house was going to flood that out of about 72 hours I probably slept three or four.  I was exhausted mentally and very drained physically, but once the house flooded it was a completely different emotion.  Asher and I, we were able-bodied, we had this canoe.  We were no longer worried about what was going to happen because it was just the situation.  I slept better afterwards because I was working.”  After Harvey hit, it was very clear what was to be done and when it needed to be completed.  “A natural disaster is life or death,” Kenney said.  “If there’s someone who hasn’t had a bottle of water in two days, you’re going to get them a bottle of water.  When a disaster is actually happening, it’s right in front of you.”</p>
<p>This is not the case with our contemporary political situation.  There is no canoe we can all climb into and row towards safety — unless you’re hoping to hitch a ride on Elon Musk’s mission to Mars and lend a hand to the creation of utopia.  There are no clear decisions to be made that will, without a question, save or improve someone’s quality of life without coming at an expense to another’s.  And if one is not inclined to protest, there are few actions that can be taken that will have a macrocosmic effect on the state of the nation and will allow those who speak for truth, justice, and respect to come into power until just under a year from now: November 6th, 2018, when many Congressional, gubernatorial, and sundry other state and local elections take place.  Beyond having the potential to mark an important milestone in resisting the tides of hatred and irrational thoughts sweeping the nation, the politicians elected next year will determine redistricting for many of the states after the 2020 United States Census, affecting the political leaders elected for the next decade.</p>
<p>With this kind of importance behind the upcoming election, it’s easy to assume that voters will be out in droves to change the face of the nation the same way that Kenney, Jeff, and others came to Houston’s aid.  But when the aforementioned factors of time, lack of clear trajectory, and shades of grey are factored into the equation to potentially dull a response on the part of passionate voters, it becomes more difficult to draw definite conclusions.  The nation is in shock that it’s just beginning to come to terms with, let alone get over, and whether or not we can surmount the surreality of the situation and take action is a thorny question.  But something which Kenney said pertaining to his action in Houston is equally applicable as we face three more years with a vindictive child as our leader: “I can either ignore the situation or help them by doing the moral and ethical thing.”</p>
<p>In Kenney’s case, “them” was the dozens of people whose property and well-being he saved, and “the moral and ethical thing” was to get in his canoe and go back for more hurricane survivors in need of aid.  In the case of the nation, “them” is a much larger conglomerate of millions of people, and morals and ethics become a bit more foggy as each individual casts a vote not only for themselves but — hopefully — for their nation, state, or district and its constituents as a whole.  But both situations require clear-headed and calm action.  Both surrealistic times call for people to act based off of their most human leanings and their faith in a better world.  Both unimaginable circumstances need people to boil their fears, thoughts, and raging emotions down to their most manageable essences to not only “accept [the situation] and do something about it” but to do so in a kind, clear, and level-headed fashion.</p>
<p>As a nation, we’ve been faced with a great deal of shock-worthy events in the past year, many of which we’re still reeling from.  But Kenney said this: “You can focus on all that’s lost, or you can say ‘oh, what a crappy situation, but I met two guys from completely different countries who I thought were best friends.’ But they weren’t: they met five hours ago, but this one guy and his wife and his three kids are going to live with this other guy for a month because their house was destroyed.  That’s what I think about now.  This sounds goofy and cliché, but you need to look for helpers.”</p>
<p>We can focus on all that’s lost and all that we’re still going to lose; we can sit in dissociated silence and wait as blow after blow hits us.  But we can also look for the helpers, however much we might despise the saccharine mentality of it.  We can accept the situation — not make our peace with it, but look it in the eye and see it for what it is without fear, disgust, or other consumptive emotions that will clog our analysis of the matter and prevent us from best defeating it — and take steps to diffuse it.  When the circumstances call for it, as they will in next year’s election, we need to make sure that we stop worrying about when the next portion of the flood is going to come and take action to start putting the pieces back together.</p>
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<h1>Consumer capitalism and Army advertising — part one</h1>
<h3>Daniel Igoe — Public Affairs Editor — digo1483@csd99.org</h3>
<p>In June of 1973, Richard Nixon ended conscription, leaving the U.S. Army with the question of how it would convince young American men (and, to a lesser extent, women) to enlist in a volunteer service. In the wake of Vietnam, the Army faced a disillusioned and hostile public who had no interest in joining its ranks; even seventy percent of Army veterans would advise potential recruits against joining the Army over other branches. In peacetime, the Cold War-era Army needed personnel, and to do that they needed to clean up their public perception.</p>
<p>The Chief of Staff of the Army at the time was General Westmoreland,an advocate for army reform. This process began with changing the way army life was perceived in the public eye to match the changing national attitude, a picture painted by sociological studies of the time. The studies pointed to a society that was, in Westmorelands words, “more affluent, more informal and more oriented towards personal freedom.” These changes were institutional and involved relaxing strict conformity requirements.</p>
<p>Forced to court public opinion, the Army looked to the advertising industry which proposed applying a free market mindset with a focus on economic incentives to military recruitment under the assumption that potential recruits would make decisions based on their own self interest. The Army brass -who had more hands-on experience with human motivation as officers- decided to focus the advertising campaign on intangibles (i.e. duty, honor, country). In doing this, they adopted a consumer-capitalist model: the Army sells the lives of young men in exchange for a consumerist fantasy.</p>
<p>The problem with using these tactics to sell the military to the American youth is that the fantasy breaks, as it always does. But here it breaks a year into a binding contract or after being deployed far away from home, risking their life fighting for causes they don’t believe in. In these cases, promises of honor and brotherhood fall upon the ears of a young man in the desert who has lost his honor and the friends with whom he had found brotherhood in a war he cannot make sense of . Consumerist fantasy is always carefully constructed artifice; this is something that the consumer must be aware of. But when the cost of fantasy is as high as it is in the military, is it an ethical artifice to craft? Is it necessary?</p>
<p>There is a more insidious side effect of this kind of marketing in these advertisements, which serve an unintentional role as the primary interface between the military and the American people. Whether in traditional television ads or appearances before a sporting event, the Army is presented as a group of heroes so far abstracted from their complex role as agents of American foreign policy as to be unrecognisable. This raises questions about propaganda and the influence of government –especially the military — in the media. As it is right now, the military has near absolute control over their narrative. This complete control over institutional image is a “reality” that they have taken full control of to sanitize their image and grind down the edges of their complex and prickly role.</p>
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