<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # And they will almost never reprice you, because... > And they will almost never reprice you, because the second calculation costs more than the first. To take you back they would have to admit they sold you cheap, in front of the attacker they appeased and the coalition that watched them do it, and that admission lowers their rank twice, once for having been wrong and once for having been afraid. So they keep the story they told when they left you, the one in which you were difficult, unstable, ungrateful, the one who caused it, because the story is now part of their display and a display that changes is a display that was false. In the primate record the loser of a rank contest is not reinstated by the coalition that let him fall; he is reinstated when he becomes valuable again, or when the one who beat him falls, and until then the troop's silence is not indecision but maintenance. Your family is waiting for one of two things, your success or your attacker's collapse, and whichever arrives first will be the day they remember your birthday. {{Families rarely reprice the one they abandoned, because taking you back would mean admitting what they sold you for, and shame is a price too.}} {{They will return when you are worth more or your enemy is worth less, and they will call it forgiveness, and it will be a purchase.}} **Source:** [[books/Chimping Out|Chimping Out]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “And they will almost never reprice you, because the second calculation costs more than the first. To take you back they would have to admit they sold you cheap, in front of the attacker they appeased and the coalition that watched them do it, and that admission lowers their rank twice, once for having been wrong and once for having been afraid. So they keep the story they told when they left you, the one in which you were difficult, unstable, ungrateful, the one who caused it, because the story is now part of their display and a display that changes is a display that was false. In the primate record the loser of a rank contest is not reinstated by the coalition that let him fall; he is reinstated when he becomes valuable again, or when the one who beat him falls, and until then the troop's silence is not indecision but maintenance. Your family is waiting for one of two things, your success or your attacker's collapse, and whichever arrives first will be the day they remember your birthday. Families rarely reprice the one they abandoned, because taking you back would mean admitting what they sold you for, and shame is a price too. They will return when you are worth more or your enemy is worth less, and they will call it forgiveness, and it will be a purchase.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/passages/passages-almost-never-reprice-call-forgiveness-purchase ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->