Leviathan: War of Buttons*

A Story by Abishai100

Isaac Satan is an idealistic inner-city teacher whose crusade to end the 'leviathan' of educational neglect creates new kinds of 'doorway' games!

One extra piece of great personal importance to me, since I came from a struggling neighborhood and was a student at a financially aspiring but challenged minority school (in Philadelphia!). Thanks so much for reading (and enjoy!),

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In a special inner-city school in an American city, there was a 'leviathan' of narcissistic cynicism and pure violence. This struggling school was about to be challenged even further when the Coronavirus quarantine would test students' faith and mettle in the use of available media resources and technologies on the Internet. Without proper focus on the traffic dynamics of struggling education, America might become a haven for crack, not music television.

In one of the classrooms of this struggling inner-city school, comprised of mostly ethnic minority students, an idealistic teacher named Isaac Satan was looking for creative games to encourage his students to think less about the dragons and leviathans of free will and anarchy and more about the imagination behind constructive self-designed thinking activities. This teacher, Mr. Satan, wanted his students to think of him as a real-life comic book hero, someone who cared about possibilities of unusual or even incredible optimism!

STUDENT: "Mr. Satan, this school isn't about thinking and fun, and it's more about graffiti and pure hell!"

That upstart student who chose to speak out and told the idealistic teacher Mr. Satan that his school wasn't all about creative solutions to urban insanity but actually a cauldron of hell inspired Mr. Satan to think about the reality behind the darkened minds of inner-city students finding more stimulation in self-ruin imagery and less stimulation in the creativity behind artistic expressions of dioramic ambitions.

MR. ISAAC SATAN: If my students want to think I'm a nerd then let them, but I'm no scrub of sloth or neglect here."

Isaac Satan, the idealistic teacher of this school, came up with a brilliant series of game-activities designed to promote more thinking time among the cynical students of the school. He first delivered lessons about the ancient sea-beast known as 'leviathan' and suggested the metaphysical 'dragon' of the waters reflected a pure and raw mental focus on absolute rebellion, and then he came up with games for the students to encourage them to find their own unique ways to express their interests in liberalized free will or independent play! These games/activities would motivate the students to think about how self-willed activities involving creative 'trinkets' could shoo away the 'leviathan' of flesh-folding, the real dangers of body narcissism and laziness! Mr. Satan called his academic crusade the War of the Buttons.

Of course, such educational outreach had been explored and expressed in various cinematic presentations in American media, even modern media. However, were these stories reaching everyday folks? This was the concern.

MR. SATAN: There's no 'golden-axe' cure to this War of the Buttons problem, but we think about grassroots growing.

Another activity or game Mr. Satan derived was the field-trips of students to struggling elementary schools where the high-school students from his own school would help the administration come up with special innovative fashion designs for the elementary school students' uniforms.

The uniform design contests generated by Mr. Satan's students' fashion activities during their visits to the elementary schools created lots of positive press about his work with branching out students to connect with younger students, motivating new forms of education field classroom atmosphere dance!

MR. SATAN: The only alternative to American educational passion is the 'leviathan' of raw road death.

While critics of Mr. Satan wondered if their idealistic captain-teacher was ever himself involved with crimes or misdemeanors or lowly activities such as drug-use or theft, his fans started to see him as a teaching resource for student-life dialogue.