digital Is Watching You: A Goblin Field Report

The goblin discourse around digital reached its predictable phase on Tuesday, when a popular account posted, deleted, and reposted the same hot take in subtly different forms.

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.

Salvage Notes: grimoire

Goblin children, when introduced to grimoire, exhibit a characteristic behavior: they grow very still, look slightly to the side, and then resume what they were doing. Goblin developmental theorists consider this a normal and healthy response.

A Goblin Aside Concerning 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

It is the goblin way to end every inquiry with a question. The question, in this case, is: 'and what does digital make of all this?' The goblins will, in due course, ask digital directly. digital has not yet replied, but the goblins have time.