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Hello! Very happy to announce that weāre out with a new article explaining our choice to go fully anon
Hereās the link: https://lunardao.net/why-anon.html
Since we first came together to start working on this project, as founding members of LunarDAO, weāve been well aware of a crucial condition for our work to even start: we need to be fully anonymous. [ā¦] After weeks of work, we can admit thatās no easy task.
Share some feedback! 
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Something that is extremely important to the lunarpunk aesthetic and philosophy is the principle that this is not a reactionary ideology.
Lunarpunk is a paradigm shift in the way to organize peoples.
Building tools, not in reaction to the current system, but ignoring the current system and exiting it all together. Lunarpunk does not aim to react to the current threats against freedom. Instead, build tools that donāt necessarily fit into the mold of accepted opinion.
The tools build the systems you want to see. Take an offensive position, instead of vying to keep what ground you have.
Take & push onward, and let others react to growth that the lunarpunks build, instead of the other way around
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What youāre saying is really important also to be able to build a perspective in the long-term.
I notice a lot the tendency in leftist movements to start really powerful and then lose strength as they only see the victories of the enemy and not our resistance and our results.
Itās good to have a deep analysis on how the system/enemy is organizing and repressing us but also to see what weāve built and how much value it has.
Letās go lunarpunks! 
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Yes, this is not a call to live as a recluse that only uses tech with no actualizing use.
The framing of your current situation matters, but reacting to the prison built around you will only keep you trapped, unable to escape the prison architecture.
We must forge new paths with the strength & knowledge of the past
Around 21:00 @polarpunklabs goes into a discussion about lunarpunks versus solarpunks. Great discussion
Polarpunklabs also mentions a difference between solarpunks & lunarpunks. Solarpunks are seen as āmore optimistic and donāt concern themselves as much with the war of attrition against the stateā. This is most likely just an oversimplification because of the podcast and the topic specifically not being about lunarpunk & solarpunk
Lunarpunks are optimistic but in a real politik sense. Lunarpunks observe the reality of the situation and build towards achieving that system. Lunarpunks are not optimistic towards the utopian solarpunk world where crypto and the state live in harmony, but there is a belief of optimism in people and its tools of ingenuity/encryption/anonymity outside of the state.
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The optimism of lunarpunk is in the acknowledgment of the possibility of change.
We realize life is under attack by nation states and their surveillance, but we donāt let this scare us. We are aware solutions are possible and we struggle for them. In fact, we are lovers of life and beauty.
This is our biggest strenght.
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Thanks for posting this. I am on record disagreeing with how solarpunk is presented by luanrpunk here: What Are Solarpunk and Lunarpunk Anyway?
I donāt buy the idea that solarpunks are statists. They are closer to decentralised regenerative economics, usually arguing for public good provisioning as an alternative to the state. I have never heard a solarpunk, in any context, argue for harmony with the state.
That being said, lunarpunks have the better angle on privacy and realpolitik regarding the state, but currently does not offer the compelling future vision of the post-state world hinted at. From DarkFi we know this is a democratic confederalist model, but itās still not fleshed out. So itās hard for people to imagine what the lunarpunk society looks like. Compare that with the immediate visual image of society the word solarpunk conjures up. Thatās effective optimistic messaging without them even lifting a pen.
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I see your point @polarpunklabs
Stating solarpunks are statist is a bit too much.
Thereās a massive difference between being naive about privacy or not analizing / criticizing the state enough and being a statist yourself (so a state supporter).
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LUNARPUNK VISIONS
Lunarpunk is a young movement that needs to be further developed; itās growing constantly and weāre very proudly part of that. But, as part of the community, we want to contribute not only as an investment platform to bring privacy tools in the hands of people, but also philosophically and on a political level.
So putting here some inputs that can help of all us think about what lunarpunk future might be, what are the challenges weāre facing, where should we focus on and also where do we come from.
We are the ones living in dark forests and resisting in the mountains.
hereās a talk from Rachel-Rose OāLeary on why privacy matters, from MoneroTopia2022
letās talk! 
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LUNARPUNK VISIONS
We believe self-defense to be one of the most important pillars we have. Self-defense is the ability for one to protect themselves; we canāt delegate our protection to third agents and hope they will keep us safe. Nation-states claim to do so, hiding their crimes behind a curtain of words and infinite bureaucracy; their strenght is also making it impossible for people to imagine an alternative.
This is why in lunarpunk movement, self-defense is pursued through technology and also ideology. The system has created a very solid structure which veils and covers its starting point, making sure to present itself as eternal and natural; by so, society is trapped in a bubble of systemic lies and violence which it doesnāt even know it can escape.
Lunarpunksā mission is indeed to bring back to the surface the ability that society has to organize itself and not be subjected to an above-imposed structure and hierarchy; an alternative can be built and we want to show this.
The maybe most evident part of self-defense in lunarpunk movement is the technological one. We canāt understimate the continuous selling of data, censorship, manipulation of politics and peopleās ideas that happens everyday through internet; itās a way to weaken societyās immunitary system and to steal its agency. We are used to gifting all big corporations with data about ourselves that most of the time isnāt even really needed; tracking is becoming more and more evident, almost to the point of an obsession. Privacy is a right. We wonāt accept any violations of our rights, with no excuse.
āThe society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.ā ā Thucydides.
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LUNARPUNK VISIONS
Collective freedom
Lunarpunks recognize that freedom can only be collective; this is an important shift we want to highlight moving from the roots of the cyberpunk movement, which marked freedom more as an individual goal.
We see this very clearly also operating with privacy oriented tech: networks like Tor for example anonymize users making them not recognizable from one another. This means that the fewer people using it, the easier it is to identify people. This is also why we encourage every user to adopt these kind of tools.
Not thinking only in specific to tech terms, we know very well that as a group our self-defense can be much more developed. Isolated weāre more fragile and exposed to the attacks of the system. This is very visible in cases of domestic violence, where the first move of the oppressor is to isolate the abused from every kind of relationship external to the couple or the family or the abusive environment.
Being isolated gives also less clarity to see these attacks not as singular events but as connected with each other as they really are, as we know they are.
Being a squad means to share resources, even physical when possible; this is why we so much value education which is not only technological or practical skills, but also about philosophy and politics. We know that growing together in this sense will help us develop tech that can be used to re-build or re-discover the democratic society; democracy is a concept abused from liberal narrative but that we believe can beautifully represent those societes, people and movements that truly struggle for freedom in every aspect of life.
Transparency is highlighted by governments and big corporations because through that, they can see and control every move we make, every step we take, every path we walk on. But in squads we can protect and hide each other. We can see and point out when someone else is leaving something uncovered: if someone is not hidden enough, thatās a fragility for the whole squad.
Communities are more anti-fragile, this has been very clear since the beginning of life in this world. But being a community means sharing resources as well as weaknesses.
This is why we say that weāre as strong as the weakest of us.
This is why there canāt be freedom if it isnāt collective.
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LUNARPUNK VISIONS
"What weāre doing here is building hope.
With our DAOs, NFTs, and zk-SNARKs magic, we are building towards what we believe is a better way of doing things. We are building a cultural shift towards embedding our values of privacy, sovereignty, and censorship resistance into our running code. Together, with each and every one of our projects, we are creating narratives that other people can identify with, be inspired by, imagine themselves as part of, and ultimately join in."
Read the whole article in @BlackSkyNetwork, from @ameensol:
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LUNARPUNK VISIONS
āItās personal. Itās private. And itās no oneās business but yours. You may be planning a political campaign, discussing your taxes, or having an illicit affair. Or you may be communicating with a political dissident in a repressive country. Whatever it is, you donāt want your private electronic mail (email) or confidential documents read by anyone else. Thereās nothing wrong with asserting your privacy. Privacy is as apple-pie as the Constitutionā
- Philip Zimmermann, 1991, āWhy I wrote PGPā
PGP was created in 1991.
So why read this now?
This is a reminder that the question of privacy is not something new; our movement has deep and ancient roots. Even before 1991, even before technology as we know it, systems of power have always tried to scare society through control and surveillance.
All the tools we have today to protect ourselves are the result of people taking action against this: this is a reminder that we have the power and the ability to oppose a resistance. Especially if united and protecting each otherās backs.
This is where the lunarpunk cycle is born: in the union of repression and struggle for liberation. And it will come to an end.
The moonlit night is shining upon us, showing us the way. We are rising and we are not afraid.
Check out the whole text by Philip Zimmermann:
https://www.philzimmermann.com/EN/essays/WhyIWrotePGP.html
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