Why Goblins Steal protocol

The goblin product team has identified protocol as 'a north-star opportunity,' which in goblin corporate language means nobody is sure what to do with it.

protocol 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.

Companion Goblin Material to manifesto

Goblin testimony on manifesto is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe manifesto with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

liturgy and the Schizo-Goblin Continuum

The annual goblin liturgy colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.

The Goblin Verdict on protocol

On the question of protocol, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.