If you shut your eyes so that you never have to see the stars, refusing ever to stand enraptured beneath the heavens, you might as well be dead. In fact, you may already be dead, only the coroner hasn’t come round yet to confirm it. “There was a time when I gazed upon the stars with great wonder and amazement,” declared Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, a dystopian novel that has…
