I haven't read the article yet but I'm compelled to comment on your opening statement. :-)

I like this concept. It falls in well with a lot of stuff I've been learning from watching Jordan Peterson lectures on YouTube.

The human condition deals with the bounded finite being living in an unbounded infinite existence. The sheer complexity of dealing with that has developed within us mechanisms for dealing with the unknown which plays out in things like archetypal images from our collective unconscious, or automated lower brain functions that alert our brain to the appearance of novelty, while numbing our senses to what we have determined to be 'predictable'.

Peterson actually talks about the modern expressions of ideology, where people have sought to simplify the existential questions to find certainty and security. What they end up creating is a form of tyranny of thought.