Hey folks, quick pre-programming announcement. Thanks for listening into our setup episodes

for the ETH or C. We're playing the quiet year, a game by Avery Alder. That's all about

map making and making wild choices to help build a community. You can find a link to

where you can find and purchase and learn more about the game on the episode description.

And also, if you want to follow along visually, we are uploading all the maps at the end

of each of these sessions at bit.ly slash ETH or C maps. And I think you need to capitalize

ETH or C and maps in order for that link to work because that's how Bitly works. We heard

some folks say they were having some trouble following along visually. And if you need

a little help with that, go to that link. I also think that if you go to our Twitter

page, we will be uploading those maps alongside the episodes there as well. That's it. Here's

the episode.

Today's lesson, the Strange Comfort of Unbearable Guilt. We should discuss these strange choices

our community made during that final summer on the surface. You must understand, while

none of us denied the reality of our situation, our responses to that reality varied wildly.

There were those who worked to preserve the culture and biology of the surface world,

refusing to let the past die alongside our poisoned planet. There were those who worked

to secure a safe and prosperous future in our new undersea home, developing an infrastructure

that could support our civilization for generations to come. But the thing that united us all,

aside from our fear of the coming storm, of course, was our guilt. Guilt for letting the

world for causing our world to collapse so spectacularly, for robbing our children and

their children of a land that should have been their birthright. Tireless and necessary

work was born out of that guilt, but so too was a kind of paralysis. So when people among

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