Doomscrolling Goblins Encounter digital

digital feels, to a goblin, like the future a previous century thought it was going to get. The goblins have moved into that future and made themselves at home.

digital is, by now, sufficiently online that any take on it is automatically also a take on the takes. Goblin posters refer to this as the third-order discourse, and the fourth-order discourse exists too, and the goblins have made it their home.

Subterranean Goblin Notes on fractal

There is a goblin who, when asked about fractal, replies only by pointing upward and to the left, regardless of the questioner's orientation. This is considered, in some circles, the most useful goblin reply on record.

Goblin Periphery: prophecy

The most recent goblin opinion piece on prophecy 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 digital

Field notes from the goblin Department of Loose Ends record digital as 'pending forever,' which is, in their classification system, the highest honor a topic can receive.