Modern people have a hard time understanding what sacrifice means, because they think, for example, of a burnt offering on an altar, which is an archaic way of acting out the idea. But we have no problem at all when we conceptualize sacrifice psychologically, because we all know you must forgo gratification in the present to keep the wolf from the door in the future. So, you offer something to the negative goddess, so that the positive one shows up.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Modern people have a hard time understanding what sacrifice means, because they think, for example, of a burnt offering on an altar, which is an archaic way of acting out the idea. But we have no problem at all when we conceptualize sacrifice psychologically, because we all know you must forgo gratification in the present to keep the wolf from the door in the future. So, you offer something to the negative goddess, so that the positive one shows up." in the context of "Jordan Peterson, Beyond Order (2021), p. 318 * To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
• Solomon, Proverbs 21:3, King James Version" to mean that wisdom is timeless.