The Purge (Adaptation)

An American educator at a prestigious school works in media to offer revolutionary ideas about inventive patriotism in this new age of doctored terrorism.

This Americana vignette inspired by the inventive anarchistic film-series The Purge presents ideas I've been interested in for a very long time, which is why I wanted to share this concept/story before leaving my friends on WritersCafe again and forever! Thanks so much for reading (and enjoy!),

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In the idyllic American city of Newport (Rhode Island), the students at the prestigious Ivy League school Brown University prepared for their post-Coronavirus college season and coursework. There was an air of optimism and class now that social distancing had become less of a deadly fear. The Brown students sought to see their Newport life in the beautiful state of Rhode Island, and the campus city of Providence flourish after the great Coronavirus tribulation of 2020.

However, there lingered in the American landscape an under-current of deep resentment and social angst regarding a general unrest and anarchy towards sociocultural trends and standards. This under-current was ironically reflected in new age noir-films including Fight Club and The Purge, and these stories represented a modern anxiety regarding a general sociocultural frailty about basic civil patriotism. Youngsters wanted to lash out against mainstream democracy.

In this modern mix of paranoia and offbeat schizophrenia, the eccentric Brown psychology professor Isaac Satan was studying macro-trends that contributed to this new era social anarchy and unrest. Satan was writing a sociology book titled Becoming Hell, a treatise on the impact of media blizzards on youthful schizophrenia and why youngsters wanted to cast themselves as anti-traffic homegrown terrorists and hellraisers in idyllic U.S cities and towns such as Springfield and Newport. Satan's book was going to be an expose on the nature of human rebelliousness.

Isaac Satan (Brown University) liked making unusual Internet blogs about the color and tone of new era rebelliousness and portrayed himself as some kind of masked psycho-sociological 'vigilante' (or Robin Hood) seeking to dissect and detangle the layers of American mystique that stretched way back to the anarchist days of Sacco and Vanzetti and were imprinted in modern paranoia-frilled events and calamities such as the L.A. Race Riots and 9/11. Satan portrayed himself as a masked crusader wanting to expose the general social unrest brimming to the edge among American youngsters who sought to cast today's educators and neglectful and disattached. Satan wanted to cast films like The Purge as symbols of inventive schizophrenia by posing himself as a neo-superman.

Isaac Satan received a strange derogatory email in his inbox at Brown which included a snapshot of his fashion-model girlfriend Danica Holmes who was in the snapshot cast and edited as a 'neo-s**t' (obviously indicating a sarcasm towards modern democracy and consumerism!). Satan was furious and wanted to know why someone would send such a derogatory email/snapshot anonymous cryptic message to him personally. He quickly and accurately deduced, however, that this sort of anti-American slander was reflective of a modern paranoia and was worried his girlfriend Danica would be endangered by his newfound mission to create American historianship through education and media.

Satan retaliated by creating a series of Internet blogs which would serve as an appetizer to his sociology book Becoming Hell. In these provocative blogs, Satan used dolls and action-figures of the fictional American horror-film avatar Leatherface (fictional chainsaw-wielding cannibal from the iconic Texas Chainsaw Massacre horror-film franchise) to project macro-fears as imprints of psychological rebelliousness. Satan suggested that these Leatherface dolls/action-figures inspired American youngsters to think more proactively about general social psychology towards American sins. Was he right?

Isaac Satan then used more Internet blogs to cast himself as the fictional folk-hero race-car driving superstar avatar Racer-X, citing that this type of traffic storytelling just might dissuade youngsters from thinking about competitive behaviors through the lens of athletics. Was he accurate about the connection between competitive instincts and the aesthetics of physique and skill?

Meanwhile, the new breed of American rebel youngsters in the Brown-neighboring idyllic U.S. city of Newport (Rhode Island) were in the mire and were donning frightening masks and preparing for Devil's Night (the annual ritual night of mischief and vandalism that fell before Halloween Eve in October!) by concocting deranged schemes about bank-robbery and property-destruction in an area otherwise characterized by great iconic scenery. This was the real-life 'Purge' and worried everyday citizens about the social impact of American violence.

A new young gang formed in Rhode Island called the Furies, modeled after a fictional iconic costumed baseball gang from a cult-favorite American film about street-gangs. The Furies wanted to loot the upper-class stores and arenas in Newport (Rhode Island) and make Devil's Night a great totem of American anarchy during the autumn season and Halloween experience. Isaac Satan knew he'd have to be an upgraded crusader and missionary if he was to drown out the screaming voices in Rhode Island that made neo-gangs such as the painted Furies hellraisers of modern dialogue.

ISAAC SATAN: "If I'm to work in modern education and media as a social exorcist of neo-paranoia, I have to address the realism behind a general social anarchy and rebelliousness towards mainstream institutional behaviors such as athletic and educational patriotism, because Devil's Night in Newport (Rhode Island) may quickly and undeniably become a sociological totem of complete and ironically youthful violence that drowns our American cheer for media diarists such as sports-dictators!"

Isaac's blogs and pre-novel comments inspired everyday people in idyllic Newport (Rhode Island) to dress up as comic book superheroes and take up night-sticks and tazers and mace to fight these neo-gangs such as the violent Furies in order to defend their homeland against this new breed of homegrown terrorism. This was a battle to uphold the basic sanity behind American dreams, and it impacted kids and adults alike!

A comic book writer in Rhode Island chose to capture all this modern sociological intrigue near Brown University by creating Lubdan leprechaun horror-stories about everyday citizens taking up arms against violent youth gangs and encountering deformed forms of modern dystopia. These Lubdan horror-tales were symbolic of Satan's mission to cleanse educational rebelliousness!

Would Newport (Rhode Island) be secured in this time of great modern under-current of psycho-sociological unrest? What would be the media legacy of missionary individuals in the educational arena such as the dashing Isaac Satan? Would he be able to coordinate education with American dollars?

U.S. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: "The greatest threat to American traffic and modern capitalism is the deformity of the dystopian homegrown terrorist, which is why we need to coordinate democratic journalism with political dogma as efficiently as possible."

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)

Reviews

[Kari Rakitan]

I dropped by Brown when touring universities, but I like Dartmouth best.

As for the s**t thing, we're reclaiming that word these days. It's a compliment.