In this book of ideas and reflections on the state of affairs, the era is examined once again. In these anachronistic considerations about the whole, which is breaking down into ever smaller parts, there is no doomsday diagnostician speaking, but someone who is convinced that we need to reinvent remembrance. Now more than ever, pausing and reflecting on the inaccessible is necessary. Those who only look forward will neither see nor understand the losses and sacrifices, what is slipping away from us; but even for those who only stare back rigidly, the present distress will not be comprehensible. It is about seeing more painfully and sharply.