Likes - The World Is Too Much With Us

Reading Private traits and attributes are predictable from digital records of human behavior by Michal Kosinskia, David Stillwella, and Thore Graepel made me, for some reason, think of Wordsworth's The World Is Too Much With Us.

The World Is Too Much With Us

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!
The Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;
The winds that will be howling at all hours,
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;
For this, for everything, we are out of tune;
It moves us not.--Great God! I'd rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.

We pour forth incidental information which becomes a means for others to know who we are beyond our knowing, to risk losing ourselves to other's intentions.