I took a walk outside tonight, and decided to look up. What I saw was stars, light years away, hundreds of light years away, but only up. I can not see the stars near the horizon, for they have an enemy that does not let them be seen near the horizon.
See, the stars have to compete against the big city. While I live where I can smell the fields as they are freshly fertilized in the spring, I also live in the influence of the city, where hundreds of thousands of people live, play, and work.
It is that demand to work, to be open at all hours of the night, that is the reason I cannot see the stars on the horizon. Because the gears of Capitalism, ever turning as they are, ever crushing as they are, they demand light, so that they can continue to turn, continue to crush, at all hours of the night.
So we lose the stars.