“Over-applied clever idea” is a good description of the essay IMO. I used to write like this in college. For me it felt good to take an idea and take it as far as possible to create logic around why the world is the way it is.
At a certain point I realized that the most complex intellectual explanations for why things are is very often no better than the simplest and least intellectual explanation.
Of course, if you over apply you end up predicting the future by looking at chicken entrails
After all, everything is correlated. “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”