The Bright Lights of... Moscow?

The other night while driving home from my girlfriend's house outside of Viola, Idaho I went over a ridge on the foothills of Moscow Mountain and saw the lights of Moscow. Now for many people they would look at this and say "Isn't it beautiful?" But for me was something a little different. The town was so bright with lights even though it was one o'clock in the morning. Our country says we have an energy demand and need more power, and yet our towns have every street lit, every store sign lit up in bright neon colors and lights on practically lights on in every business even though the store closed at nine or maybe even six. Then I thought "are all the lights necessary? Do we really need a street light every hundred feet in town even though our cars were built with these funny contraptions called headlights? And how would our lives be different if electric lights were turned off at eleven or twelve o'clock? Or what if electric lights didn't exist at all?" After some pretty extensive pondering (it is one in the morning), I began to wonder, if we lived without electric lights would our eyes be better adapted to the dark? Every time we turn a light on or off our eyes have to adjust to the difference in lighting. So if we don't use electric lights our eyes would not have to adjust so dramatically and so frequently. Then maybe our eyes could fully adjust to compensate with either the complete darkness of night or the relative brightness of day.
So how would we function without electric lights? Would we be able to use our instincts that God provided us with? We seem to have manipulated our lives so that we can be ultimately lazy and not even use the full extent of our natural senses. I decided to experiment. I turned off the headlights of my Jeep and drove the twelve more miles of country roads home with my lights off...
Within a minute I could see perfectly fine! It wasn't bad at all, of course some moonlight helped out a little bit. But this experiment convinced me that if we were willing to give up a few lights we could get by comfortably with half or even fewer lights, and then just maybe everyone will get a better look at the stars that the city lights seem to blot out.