Ian McEwan Quotes

Self Persuasion Was A Concept Much Loved By Evolutionary Psychologists. I Had Written A Piece About It For An Australian Magazine. It Was Pure Armchair Science, And It Went Like This: If You Lived In A Group, Like Humans Have Always Done, Persuading Others Of Your Own Needs And Interests Would Be Fundamental To Your Well-being. Sometimes You Had To Use Cunning. Clearly You Would Be At Your Most Convincing If You Persuaded Yourself First And Did Not Even Have To Pretend To Believe What You Were Saying. The Kind Of Self-deluding Individuals Who Tended To Do This Flourished, As Did Their Genes. So It Was We Squabbled And Scrapped, For Our Unique Intelligence Was Always At The Service Of Our Special Pleading And Selective Blindness To The Weakness Of Our Case.

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