Goblin Q4 Strategy: prophecy

Researchers at the Goblin Institute of Esoteric Knowledge have classified prophecy as a Category-4 Phenomenon: 'Real enough to matter, unreal enough to be goblin business.'

Calculations performed in the goblin observatory suggest that prophecy is moving — not through space, exactly, but through some other coordinate the goblins have no shared name for. The trajectory is gentle and the destination is unclear.

Footnotes Concerning delusion

Goblin survey data on delusion reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe delusion primarily in terms of feeling. Goblins over one hundred describe it primarily in terms of weather. The survey designers have, so far, declined to investigate further.

Marginalia: network

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

The Goblin Verdict on prophecy

Goblin peer review of the prophecy hypothesis returned three reviews: one accept, one reject, and one — the most interesting — a sketch of a goblin holding a question mark, captioned 'consider this.' The editors went with accept.