Goro - just a nudge unit or is there more to it?

[FrankD]

One thing I am intrigued by - for quite a while now – is the existence of Goro. Allthough part of the fabric of Witness it seems to be something marginal in the bigger scheme of things. But it also has a real disruptive potential. At current, it is believed to be a ‘nudge unit’ or designed to add “a touch of serendipity and whimsy to Hygge”. But could it be much more than that? It could turn out to be a cloaked probing mechanism/ instrument of a yet unrevealed power/ group to search for weakness’ in the data driven Districts within Witness. One of those weakness’ could then be exploited to trigger an event and a seemingly spontaneous civil reaction to disrupt or destabilize a Distrikt or even the “cooperative fabric” of Witness as a whole.

[petussing]

Agree. We’ll see what the writers do, but someone will surely turn it into Loki, or your own local Trickster…

[iouxo]

Goro shows up here

Hygge-II

The description of Hygge continues: TALENTS Pat Ayedemi was known to be a great teacher of the art of debate, often using the language of logic and rhetoric to bring up points that the audience would have otherwise overlooked. In the early days of the Smoothing Years, he became increasingly active in the politics of Witness and Denton’s government. As a result, he began to be seen as a key advocate for the creation of the State Machine École. He had always been an advocate for the reform …