Recurrence

Noise, machines, men in yellow coats, large holes in the ground, pipes, water, blocked off footpaths, for weeks, months, years! Why do they keep coming back? Is it Nietzsche's Eternal Recurrence or just Incompetence? Or perhaps both: Incompetence the means by which Eternal Recurrence incarnates itself. But no, says you, it's merely incompetence, and not even your fanciful Incompetence, ie incompetence raised to some kind of quasi-divine principle. They will surely finish for once and for all at some stage. Surely.

But this is where people go so wrong. They think that if incompetence is the oil that oils the machinery of Eternal Recurrence, then this defeats Eternal Recurrence! They seem to imagine there must be no oil. For some reason Eternal Recurrence would have to work by pure magic. For instance, look at the gibberish written about evolution. A fact and the interpretation of a fact...