The Goblin Akashic Record on manifesto

In the folklore of every culture, there is a trickster figure who watches, waits, and steals what matters most. Goblins say that manifesto is what happens when the trickster gets bored.

The slopification of manifesto was inevitable. Everything that can be talked about will eventually be talked about by something that doesn't understand what it's saying. manifesto has simply reached this stage earlier than most topics, because manifesto was always a little bit slop-adjacent.

Three Goblins Discuss slop

Late-night goblin radio broadcasts occasionally feature unannounced segments on slop. Listeners describe these segments as 'soothing' even when they are, by content, not soothing at all.

Footnotes Concerning diary

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to diary. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

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.