Residual rank continues after every external hierarchy of higher order has been leveled. The residual man continues to live according to interior rank even though the age offers no confirming position and no shared recognition. The rank itself remains intact. Only the collective structures that once made it public have disappeared.
Young men who still sense differences of quality often look for residual hierarchies or residual groups that will assign rank from outside. Most of those groups have already adjusted the ranking until it no longer differs from the horizontal demands of the age. The residual path does not wait for external assignment. It continues to live from the interior rank that still holds the vertical measure.
This solitary rank is the residual form of the older traditional hierarchy that once ordered both the individual and the civilization. The man who keeps rank present already performs the residual act. That act does not require collective recognition to remain real.
Live residual rank. Do not wait for the age to restore conditions in which higher hierarchy is publicly structured. The residual act is to keep the permanent measure of rank effective in every concrete decision. That effectiveness is the continuity of the higher type under residual conditions.