# Hobbyhorse Apology

Originally published: 2019-10-01
Canonical URL: /2019/Oct/hobbyhorse-apology/

If I sound like a broken record about [school](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/tag/schooling/) or whatever [("or whatever")](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2012/10/the-quieted-scare-convention/), it's only because the dominant ideological trends of Society are engaging in conceptual gerrymandering that artificially raises the [message length](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/f4txACqDWithRi7hs/occam-s-razor) of my existence, such that I _need_ to yell constantly in order to maintain my [measure](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2013/08/measure/) in social reality.