Looking Outward vs. Upward

If you don’t look upward, you will look outward. If you don’t look to God for validation, you will look to your fellow man with all the misery associated with status competition. Inasmuch as we Americans are looking upward less, we are looking outward more and social media magnifies this outward-looking orientation to a significant degree. This, as much as anything, probably explains the dramatic rise in depression, suicide, and other indicators of general unhappiness in recent years.