The man who does not dissolve is the residual capacity to remain intact after every collective form of higher integrity has been eroded. The residual man continues to stand whole even though the age offers no confirming environment for integrity. The integrity itself remains intact. Only the collective supports that once made its presence public have disappeared.
Young men who still feel the demand of a higher integrity often look for residual communities or residual disciplines that will keep them from dissolving. Most of those communities have already been emptied by the horizontal forces that dominate the age. The residual path does not wait for external support. It continues as the permanent integrity from the interior center that still holds the vertical measure.
This solitary integrity is the residual form of the older traditional knowledge of the unbroken man. The man who continues to remain whole already performs the residual act. That act does not require collective supports to remain real.
Do not dissolve. Do not wait for the age to restore conditions in which higher integrity is collectively sustained. The residual act is to keep the permanent measure decisive in every concrete decision. That decisiveness is the continuity of the higher type under residual conditions.