I sense some bias here.
When I was a grad student at Berkeley (long, long ago), I was once housemates with a PhD of PoliSci who studied revolutions. He and I headed out to the nearby
People's Park demonstrations (linked, because the issue takes a bit to explain). Demonstrations suddenly turned to riots that evening, and we were caught in the middle of them. Meanwhile, he's taking notes -- comparing all the behaviors he's witnessing to what he studied about Central and South American revolutions, etc.
He and I eventually got caught as observers at the back end of a march, which was a bad, bad thing. Rows of police lined up on motorcycles, side-by-side, to sweep the street from building across the street to building to clear everyone out -- and we were caught in the middle of it. To make their point, the cops even started shooting rubber bullets at us, so my housemate and I jumped the fence of some house to escape the bullet fire and the wall of motorcycles sweeping people off the streets. That was some crazy stuff.
But to say my housemate didn't have any idea how the world works, you have to be freaking kidding me, IZ.
It was pretty clear that night, as he saved me from getting run over by a cop and shot by rubber bullets.
My wife made a killer Greek salad and some hummus and pita. :lick: