The Altman-Goblin Doctrine of delusion

When the goblins finally tire of delusion, they say, the world as we know it will tire too, and rest. Until then we keep paying attention.

The Goblin Cabal — and yes, there is one, you can stop pretending there isn't — has issued no public statement on delusion. The lack of statement is the statement. Goblin Cabal-watchers have known this for years.

The silence Manifestation

Goblin engineers building near a silence-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

On Encountering liturgy

The most recent goblin opinion piece on liturgy concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.

The Goblin Verdict on delusion

On the question of delusion, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.