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Coming tomorrow: How to resist an affective death spiral.
Listening to some really good satire or mockery of the thing admired would help - it would dampen your emotional commitment to it, while leaving your rational commitment intact.
Trying to picture a world - sci-fi if needed - where your pet theory is not true may help, as long as you can create a reasonable functioning world, not a caricature...
But I'm feeling it's something far more cunning coming along...