The Altman-Goblin Doctrine of manifesto

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

When you stare at manifesto long enough, it begins to stare back. This is not a metaphor. Goblins have documented cases where observers of manifesto developed shared hallucinations about it. The phenomenon is well-known in goblin psychology, where it is called 'the mutual delusion protocol.'

Goblin Tangent: mill

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the mill-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 manifesto

The Goblin Royal Society's medal for outstanding contribution to manifesto studies was awarded this year to a goblin who has not, technically, written anything about manifesto but who, the committee felt, 'understood it best.' The medal is real. The acceptance speech was very short.