As breathing and consciousness return

"The big things are useful, but hard. The small things are easy, but useless."

Solzhenitsyn wrote a different essay with this same title, but for the same situation: the rules for a discourse of a return to collective reason, within the context of some baffling, nonsensical and unprecedented historical moment, a world so confusing we cannot even begin to think within it until we first teach ourselves to think without it.

In his sol…