Scotland independence: "a better organised and vastly more powerful version of the Occupy movement"
I believe DU liberals will enjoy this article...DU conservatives...no, not so much.
From The Guardian:
In Scottish city centres right now, you’re rarely out of sight of a yes badge. The vibe was summed up by an Edinburgh cabbie: “We’re being invited to run our country. It’s very exciting. Maybe we can show how things can be done differently”. It’s not just him. Polls have shown the yes vote surging.
It’s worth noting how remarkable this is. The only UK party supporting independence is the Greens. Of all of the local Scottish and British papers, only the Sunday Herald backs yes. The official story has long been that it’s only a few angry men in kilts who care about this.
But in the internet age, officials don’t get to write the stories any more. There were always people who had little time for flags, tartanry and shortbread, but who wanted to escape a political system that has made Britain one of Europe’s most unequal counties. And it is these people – a better organised and vastly more powerful version of the Occupy movement – that the Westminster parties and their media partners failed to consider.
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These people created their own media and founded their own organisations. They are young, energetic, enthusiastic, funny. They looked the British state straight in the eye and saw through its illusions. The hierarchies of a steeply unequal country reward loyalty and elite connections while punishing independence of mind. No wonder kids from “the regions” are running rings around the “gurus” of a floundering establishment.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/18/scotland-yes-campaign-voting-british-state
YES!
May this become a worldwide phenomenon and movement.
Slainte!
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Quite the amount of supporting evidence you've supplied to prop up your premise... 
Mom (one-half Scots descent) makes it every Christmas. I used to help her by whipping the butter until it was "light and flufy" (pronounced "floofy"; there was a typo on the recipe 
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And even sillier pretending there's not...
You forgot this 
This thread wins DU for the sheer
WTF? OMG Wait WTF? 
I've never watched a person pull the wool over their own eyes... until today. Maybe that's who he thinks he's kidding. 
Will be reading the Guardian piece later. 
Long live the Scots!!
Scotland has been part of the U.K. for more than 300 years with both positive and negative consequences. I wish them luck whichever way they vote.
People taking an interest in their government and their country's future does not equate to Occupy. It equates to good citizenry but I guess we have Occupy to thank for that, too. 
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abstraction and conceptualization.
The majority of DUers get Occupy instantly, it is natural for them.
Others...not so much.
Those that get Occupy intrinsically understand that you can't kill an idea. (No matter how hard you try!)
Try this: Think of Occupy as a seed of a tree that cannot be killed. The seed has sprouted, and the tree is now growing, spreading roots and branches. Recent events in Scotland are a small branch of the young, healthy Occupy tree. Someday the roots of the Occupy seed will take all the nutrients from the noxious weeds among which it has sprouted, and the bad weeds will die. The shade of the mature Occupy tree will prevent the seeds of the noxious weeds from ever growing again.
Remain optimistic.
