Street lights are making humanity stupid

I think street lights are making us stupid, unimaginative and uncreative.

Why?

Last weekend we went camping out at Tatuchun Lake, trying to squeeze our last camping weekends in before winter.  There was only one other couple there in the campground.  It was a totally clear night, and when looking up, I was awestruck and inspired by the amazing depth of stars.  That's just not something you see in town.  I was filled with a sense of wonder and desire to explore.

What I realized is that spirit of discovery and exploration is stimulated by dark nights and seeing a full sky of stars.  Without seeing the stars, I wonder how much of our (our being "humanity's") creativity and enthusiasm to learn, explore and discover is suppressed?

I've read that one of the most significant benefits of the space program in the '50s and '60s was the amount of creativity, science, engineering and learning that was stimulated in society.  Since the space program has waned, we've had a real drop off in research and young people entering science and engineering.  How exactly are all these M.B.As, buisness majors and IT, dot.com financiers going to advance society in REAL terms?  Not much I'm afraid.  The stimulation of science and research in society was a major argument for a Mars mission in Robert Zubrin's book "The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must".  
 
Kind of sad that we no longer want to explore.  I wonder how much more inspired to learn and discover we and our children would be if we could routinely see the wonder and inspiration of sky full of stars.  Are street lights and their light pollution robbing us of this gift?