Betray

There is always more than one imperative. Never just one. How, then, to choose between them? This chapter does not answer that question. Rather, it asks about the giving of imperatives, about the desire of and for imperatives; why one may want an imperative and what imperatives want of you. The claim of the chapter is that all imperatives are responding or reacting to the confusion of the “always more than one”. That all imperatives are seeking, in one way or another, to be done with the always more than one and so, to be done with the with . Attempting a step back, the chapter suggests that it is only insofar any given imperative happens not to happen that we – whoever and whatever we may be – have any chance. And so, that perhaps the only way to be true to an imperative is to betray it.