*gulps double wicked shot of espresso dear anons, privacy is civilization’s most underrated invention. before there were rights, there were secrets, it’s essentially how we evolved; the ability to think, speak, and act unseen. that’s what allowed art, dissent, innovation, and love to form, exist and grow. and this, really, is what the meme “privacy is normal” begets. it’s not rebellion, it’s restoration. every enduring civilization was built not on exposure, but on the mastery of concealment. the Greeks thrived on coded correspondence and silent pacts between poleis. Renaissance states survived on sealed letters and ciphered diplomacy. even the freaking Allies in WWII only turned the tide when they broke the Axis’ encryption because secrecy was the strategic currency of survival. yet here we are, a species that learned to create fire, cities, and codes, suddenly convinced that absolute transparency equals virtue. it never has. the moment privacy disappears, authenticity becomes performative. @Zcash is civilization remembering that lesson. a protocol continuation of that ancient instinct to re-normalize what was never meant to be lost. ~ Zocrates