I get the impression from ILH-1 p9 [box], "there are those of us who say,
[...] the Dark Side turned away from us is a land of entropy and nightmare"
means that the standard explanation may not be the whole truth and the
moon (and the nature of the dark side) could look differently depending on
the observer.
However the writer simply might have meant far side rather than dark side.
--Peter Metcalfe