the world is too much with us and blue world

 william wordsworth said once,

The world is too much with us; late and soon,

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;—

Little we see in Nature that is ours;

We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!

A sordid boon! An awful good thing. A dirty blessing. A nasty prize. 

Oh William Wordsworth you would've HATED Instagram and TikTok. Oh you would've LOST IT. But also he totally would've been all over those apps. The boy loved to talk!

He's talking about the same kind of stuff as Walt Whitman. All anyone cares about is this made up stuff and we're alienated from Nature which is the thing we are and makes us whole. 

Except Wordsworth uses the much cooler phrase, "we lay waste our powers"

You have powers. We all have powers. And we can't waste them! But we do. What powers you ask? 

Love mostly. If you act from love, dang near unstoppable force.

Mac Miller once said,

Well, it's a mad world, it made me crazy

Might just turn around, do 180

I ain't politicking, I ain't kissing no babies

The devil on my doorstep bein' so shady

Mm, don't trip, we don't gotta let him in

Don't trip

Hey, yeah

I let it go but I never go with it

Well, if you could see me now

Love me then hold me down

My mind, it goes, it goes

It goes, it goes, it goes

It's the same stuff. I think the biggest difference is that Mac Miller doesn't offer an answer or an alternative like Nature or the miracle of everything. He's in it and there's no way out of it. But there is love and companionship and that offers a break from the world and the devil. The ability to say 'no'. Mac says, 'Maybe it'll work out. Maybe I'll turn things around. I'll try my best.' It's the difference between escaping a problem and managing it.

I just think it's really cool that there are sensitive people who exist who put this stuff down in words for other people to see and experience and talk about their life and how they see the world and THAT'S PRETTY NEAT!