Eine Minute der Menschheit

The so-called Lemsche Law states: No one reads anything; when he reads something, he does not understand it; when he understands it, he forgets it immediately. As a remedy for this fatal situation, a kind of book of records presents itself, which captures what people do every minute, which can largely be expressed as: what they do to others and what is done to them by others. A book of sober numbers that, through the cold handling of facts with the means of statistics, has a fantastic effect, a massive avalanche of numbers and figures, an extreme summary of humanity, an unvarnished snapshot of minutes that reveals a cabinet of curiosities filled with astonishing anthropological data, not least about death, illness, deformity, misfortune, and crime.