Standing itself has become residual rank. External ranks have dissolved. The residual man continues to stand according to the permanent measure even though no collective structure recognizes that standing as rank. The rank remains real because it is rooted in the vertical criterion.
Young men who still sense rank often look for residual titles or positions that will confirm their standing. Most of those titles have already been emptied by the leveling process. The residual path does not wait for confirmation. It continues to stand without external recognition.
This residual standing is the residual form of the older hierarchical rank that once ordered traditional societies from above. The man who keeps standing already carries the residual rank. That rank does not require an audience to remain effective.
Remain standing. Do not wait for the age to restore external ranks that the cycle has already dissolved. The residual act is to keep the vertical position present in a world that has abolished every higher position. That presence is the continuity of the higher type.