Show Posts
31
GAA Discussion / Re: Paul Kimmage interviews Sean Cavanagh
« on: September 18, 2018, 07:43:35 AM »Peter Canavan believes there is an 'agenda' against the Red Hand county
"I do believe that Tyrone are on the receiving end whenever there is negativity attached to gaelic games. It appears to be pointed up in this direction pretty quickly. I would say there is an agenda going on in that regard," he said.
https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/peter-canavan-believes-there-is-an-agenda-against-the-red-hand-county-as-tyrone-gaa-condemn-unwarranted-violence-37325340.html
There is an academic explanation for how Tyrone do it. Caravan whining is par for the course.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/17/science-behind-brexit-vote-trump
“Tight cultures have strong norms and little tolerance for deviance, while loose cultures are the opposite.
A discovery I and my team published in Science is that the strength of a culture’s norms isn’t random. Though they were separated by miles, and in some cases centuries, tight cultures as diverse as Sparta and Singapore have something in common: each faced (or faces) a high degree of threat, whether from Mother Nature – disasters, diseases, and food scarcity – or human nature – the chaos caused by invasions and internal conflicts.
Analysing hundreds of hunter-gatherer groups, as well as nation-states including the Aztecs and Incas, we found that cultures that experienced existential threats, such as famine and warfare, favoured strong norms and autocratic leaders. Our computer models show a similar effect: threat leads to the evolution of tightness.”