All of Junger's work is essential reading for young men today, it's as simple as that. You can see how the topics addressed in his books reflect the subtle changes in his worldview as he grows older and more dissatisfied with the metapolitics of the 20th century. The only downside (and this is the case with all German writers) is that his German does not always translate so well into English.
The following is a relevant passage from the book:
"Fear is symptomatic of our times - and it is all the more disturbing as it comes on the heels of an epoch of great individual freedom, in which hardships of the kind portrayed by Dickens were already virtually forgotten.
How did such a shift come about? If we want to pick out a turning point none could be more appropriate than the day the Titanic went down. Here light and shadow collide starkly: the hubris of progress with panic, the highest comfort with destruction, and automatism with a catastrophe manifested as a traffic accident.
In fact, the growing automatism is closely connected with the fear, in the sense that man restricts his own power of decision in favor of technological expediencies. This brings all manner of conveniences - but an increasing loss of freedom must necessarily also result. The individual no longer stands in society like a tree in a forest; instead, he resembles a passenger on a fast-moving vessel, which could be called Titanic, or also Leviathan. While the weather holds and the outlook remains pleasant, he will hardly perceive the state of reduced freedom that he has fallen into. On the contrary, an optimism arises, a sense of power produced by the high speed.
All this will change when fire-spitting islands and icebergs loom on the horizon. Then, not only does technology step over from the field of comfort into very different domains, but the lack of freedom simultaneously becomes apparent - be it in a triumph of elemental powers, or in the fact that any individuals who have remained strong command an absolute authority."
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