“What ordinary people think of as safety and convenience.”
But it is my right to see the mweeky way! Stop all electricity!
“But it is my right to see the mweeky way! Stop all electricity!”
Oh good lord...
No, no one is talking about “rights” or taking away “muh electricity”. People are talking about the needlessness of shining streetlights and your house floodlights into the sky (or straight out into other people’s yards), where they arent doing jack but blotting out the sky. What are you “protecting” by pointing a light straight up anyway?
And I find it odd that as much as we talk about how we are the protectors of western civilization, and traditionalism, one of the pillars of it were the common knowledge and use of the night sky for navigation, timekeeping, religious observance, and the regulating of crop planting/harvesting, not to mention many of the early classical works were in part either directly tied to constellation mythology or were direct descendants of mythology that came from the same.
To just casually blot that out is no different than some professor ignoring classical knowledge because we have “better” stuff to replace it.