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The moth is a blight. The moth is an annoyance. The moth is one of Nature’s superior idiots. Yes, just like manufacturers sometimes produce consumer products that are subpar, the Great Architect seems to have dropped the ball in regards to the moth. This is evident for two reasons: First, clothing and foliage apparently taste the same to the moth. Now, I don’t know about you, but I imagine that my life would be impacted negatively were I unable to determine whether I was eating a salad or a pair of pants. The second, and perhaps the more damning display of the moth’s stupidity, is its total obsession with light. During summer evenings, everyone’s porch lights are swarming with hordes of fluttering drones that range in size from tiny to freakin’ huge. Why?

What would happen to a chipmunk that was too stupid to eat a nut? It would die wouldn’t it? Likewise, if a shark was too dumb to keep swimming, it would surely perish. Indeed, if any animal upon this Earth lacked the necessary brain power to survive, Nature would eliminate it so it couldn’t breed and create more free range fools. Such mental defficiency, however, is rare within the animal kingdom, for Nature saw fit to equip her subjects with instincts. We humans were also granted this gift, but we seem to have traded in all of our instincts–all of our common sense–for cell phones and Internet porn.