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...
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...