Two Reasons Why Things Fall Apart

One of the ideas that Mercia Eliata, famous historian of religions, extracted from a very large corpus of flood myths was the idea that the earth is periodically flooded for two reasons. One is things fall apart. It's straight entropy. And so things have a proclivity to fall apart on their own. So you just have to run like mad just to keep them doing what they're supposed to be doing. Then of course that is complicated by your own willful blindness and inadequacy as a repair person and refusal to attend and all those other things.