Eternal Recurrence and Holism

Zarathustra's observation, in 'The Vision and the Riddle', that "all things are bound fast together", expresses what can be classified as Nietzsche's 'Holism'.  Now, Holism can be either diachronic or synchronic, and the concept of Eternal Recurrence is of the former kind.  Hence, the attention to that concept tends to obscure Nietzsche's  synchronic Holism, which he advocates from the outset of his oeuvre.  For example, in #2 of Birth of Tragedy, he describes the unity of "the race and of nature", as well as that of the individual, in its "whole pantomime of dancing, forcing every member into rhythmic movement."  Furthermore, Holism is central to the doctrine of Eternal Recurrence, e. g. in #341 of The Gay Science, it is the affirmation of the recurrence of "each and every thing" that is in question, and in 'The Convalescent', it is Zarathustra's disgust at the affirmation of the recurrence of the "smallest" part of the race that is in question.  Accordingly, it is via synchronic Holism that the affirmation presents a corrective to the problem of Specialization, alluded to in 'Of Redemption', i. e. "inverse cripples", and, more prosaically analyzed in #212 of Beyond Good and Evil, as has been previously discussed.  So, despite the standard fascination with the diachronic dimension of the doctrine of Eternal Recurrence, which, after all is merely a heuristic device, it is its concrete synchronic dimension that is more fundamental.