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Intellectual Trickle-Down Berkeley

Posted in Telegraph Avenue, The Berkeley Scene on March 30th, 2017 by admin – Be the first to comment

by Steed Dropout
March 29, 2017

PISSED-OFF PATHOS PITCHED ON BERKELEY STREET, AND THEN A FEROCIOUS FRACAS


Photo by Ted Friedman.

Cal Berkeley offers a Phd. in Rhetoric ruled by some of the best rhetors on the planet.

In the coffee houses of Berkeley the learned and the unlearned…use/misuse rhetorical strategies between espressos. You could say that the intellectual force of Cal had trickled down to the rest of us.

You just don’t expect to hear blatant, unabashed rhetoric in, what, ultimately, was a mental health case on the streets.

The entire incident was witnessed by a crowd of angry street-people/urban survivalists…and they became more and more agitated as events played out.
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