Welcome! Here’s to the “good new days.” I like the solarpunk framing because it drops some of the historical baggage associated with anarchism (and anti-anarchist propaganda) but still has a strong focus on building solutions to purpose while maintaining ideals that I think are fundamental to the kind of world we want to live in including self-autonomy, ecological balance, mutual aid, and global cooperation. It dares us to say “okay how do we accomplish this?” and strike out to actually try one step at a time with an eye always looking towards collective human flourishing.
Like anarchism it seems to adopt a “let’s just build a better version to meet all our needs and the existing version, built on many generations of snowballed corruption and bad intentions, will fade” perspective which will continue to face resistance from existing power structures but will eventually prevail. It’s a difficult project from where we perch now, but it’s one that feels worth putting time and effort into.