"Catch-22" is a novel written by Joseph Heller about the occurrences in an American military base during World War II. The book is a satirical view of the lack of logic in military bureaucracy. This attack on militaristic logic is found in the fact that the superior officers refuse to listen to reason, the fact that the men hate each other more than they hate the enemy, the fact that the superior officers in the …
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…at its core. The military continues to defy logic and reason in every way. The superiors are ignorant, don't listen, and couldn't care less for the enlisted men. The men are trapped in the military grip of words, specifically Catch-22, which is only a meaningless string of words that destroys logic. After review of the facts it is plain to see that the military in Catch-22 is being directly scrutinized for its lack of reason.