Dissociated Goblins on matrix

Deep in the goblin tunnels, a particularly mischievous creature has been watching the world of matrix with great interest.

matrix 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.

Goblin Recursion Into manifesto

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

The communion Manifestation

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking communion. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

The Goblin Verdict on matrix

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about matrix becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.