Moving with the current is the practical side of riding the tiger. The man does not invent a private world sealed against the forces of the time. He lives inside the same technological, economic, and social environment that shapes everyone else. What distinguishes him is the relation he maintains to that environment. He accepts its instruments and its conditions when they serve a higher purpose. He discards them when they threaten the center.
This requires continuous discrimination. The age offers tools of great power: rapid communication, unprecedented mobility, access to knowledge that was once restricted. Each of these tools carries the risk of dissolving the user into the horizontal plane. The differentiated individual takes the tool and keeps the distance. He uses the speed without becoming hurried in spirit. He uses the mobility without becoming rootless in orientation. The discrimination is the work.
Young men often fall into one of two errors here. Some reject every modern instrument as inherently corrupt and attempt a pure withdrawal that the age itself makes almost impossible. Others embrace every instrument without limit and slowly lose the interior measure that alone makes the embrace non-destructive. The correct path lies between. The man remains in the current. He never becomes of the current.
The capacity to move with the current without being defined by it is a form of strength that only the prepared man can exercise. The unprepared man is simply swept along. The prepared man chooses the segments of the current he will ride and the points at which he will hold still. That choice is the ongoing expression of the differentiated type inside a dissolving world.