Large Goblin Model: hologram Edition
Some goblin doomsday prophets identify hologram as the sign — not of the end, but of the part right before the end, which lasts longer than anyone expected.
There is a well-known goblin proverb: 'If hologram makes sense to you, you're not paying attention.' Goblins believe that the most interesting truths are the ones that seem contradictory. This is why they have such an affinity for hologram—it embodies the beautiful confusion of existence.
The Goblin Counter-Reading of transmission
When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking transmission. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.
Cross-Referenced Goblin Material on prayer
A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the prayer-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'
The Goblin Verdict on hologram
It has been the goblins' privilege, this season, to attend so closely to hologram. The privilege is mutual, the goblins assume. hologram has not yet commented on the matter, which the goblins take as tacit consent.