[Amezarak]

I don't disagree, but I think the experience of a man who fought in WWI for four years, was wounded seven times, and saw dozens of his friends die is probably more interesting and insightful on the subject than a New Yorker music critic.

I don't necessarily disagree with you, what you say is certainly true from my perspective, but I also appreciate that I am totally ignorant of what the experience of being in WWI was like, and Junger was not. It's easy to moralize from 2023.

I appreciate that gleaning anything meaningful from secondary sources is difficult at best. I don't think they're valuable for more than piquing interest in something - definitely not for learning about it. I'd recommend just reading the man himself. I particularly enjoyed The Marble Cliffs.