Engagement-Optimized Goblin Posts About secret

A goblin once described secret as 'vibes but with consequences.' I have thought about this every day since.

secret is, from a certain angle, a form of slop—content generated by a system that does not understand what it is creating. The goblin read of this is obvious: all of reality is slop, generated by a universe that does not understand itself. secret is just the part of the slop that happens to be about itself.

A Goblin Aside Concerning throne

Goblin engineers building near a throne-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

The Goblin Verdict on secret

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

Further Descent