I think the phenomena you're getting at is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectualization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectualization and https://en.wi

I think the phenomena you're getting at is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectualization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectualization and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationalization_(psychology) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationalization_(psychology). The first is thinking to prevent feeling, and the second is thinking to soften the feeling. Both kinds of thinking are natural. Defense mechanisms are always present in the process of making up our minds. But if defense mechanisms are allowed to dominate our thought process-- to kill feelings before they can provoke new thoughts-- the result will be indecisive, ambiguous writing that implicitly dumps the burden of resolving the anxiety, resentments and other dark feelings, onto the author's audience. An elite who publishes their overthinking signals their inability to resolve their feelings or the feelings of the people they have power over.