Marginalia in the Goblin Codex of ritual

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

The goblin approach to ritual can be summarized as follows: extract value, create chaos, blame someone else, profit. This is not a criticism. This is admiration. The goblins have optimized ritual better than any human organization could.

Three Goblins Discuss gpt

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about gpt. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

Footnotes Concerning conspiracy

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the conspiracy-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 ritual

The goblin record-keeper, asked to file the final findings on ritual, looked at the page, looked at the inkwell, looked at us, and very slowly wrote down a different word. The substitution stands.