The flags, the banners, the shouting, where?

Some of your theories and opinions will at some point be proven to be right, or at least be confirmed. My latest one was that there will be no more real revolutions, not even or maybe especially not including students at universities. A sad but true experience was the day two students, one of them being myself, had the brilliant idea of sympathising with our fellows at another uni in Berlin who were known to be on strike at the time, so in between lectures we decided to use our spare time to get together some people to accompany us because surely they'd all be happy to come along to at least watch the demonstration. To our great amazement though there was nobody showing any interest at all to support! Ah well, great revolutions always started off with few people who believed in their ideas, of course not everyone was ready to be convinced immediately.. So off we went to our fellow university. But where were the masses of determined students on strike? Where the flags, the banners, the shouting? After interviewing various people who barely knew what was supposed to be going on, after walking around through endless buildings and yards, feeling rather like tourists visiting a strange little village, we tried to scare two porters by announcing the big scary strike awaiting them in the form of many furious students. Then we headed back to our uni, were a little late for our lecture and had to sneak in behind the professor in front of everyone, with everyone staring at us indifferently, nobody knowing what little rebellion is left in society.