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MEDITATION ON SACRIFICE
...Sacrifice is the fundamental psychological effect that builds all human culture because it is a removal of now for future payoff -whether in wealth or food or song recall or reliable shelter or present-day enjoyment of princesses. This is cosmologically huge and rarely observed among non-human persons. It is reasonable to posit that just this delayed gratification was part of the first extradimensional exchange with whatever appeared at the Campfire’s Edge. It seems to me one of the things we would all want individually squared away in our heads is whether/how 'sacrifice' to external entities is either quantitatively or qualitatively different to the emergence of delayed gratification in one's own developmental psychology.
Because there is a lot to play for: The Easter motif explores the ultimate today/tomorrow payoff which -performed correctly- leads to immortal life. Little wonder that it is traditionally preceded by a long period of fasting. Taking an unlicensed psychoanalytic approach, we could say it also maps to the appearance of ‘delayed gratification’ in childhood development. And it turns out mastery of delayed gratification is among the best -if not the best- predictor of future success...