![]() What’s perhaps even worse, he keeps running face-first and smashing his nose into the unbreakable wall of war-time bureaucracy as it finds reasons time and time again to refuse him the simple pleasure of going home. ![]() The number of combat missions he needs to fly is constantly increasing, and soon enough his own army proves to be more troublesome than any enemy in the field. However, his experience of war is quite different to how he imagined it. In my humble opinion, it’s a sad state of affairs which we would benefit from reversing for one simple reason: it holds the sort of truth capable of making us think and changing us on a core level, and there are very few books I could attribute such a characteristic to.Īnyhow, the story follows Captain John Yossarian, an American bombardier flying missions over Italy as the war draws closer and closer to its end. Though the name of the book is certainly held in high regard, having even managed to become part of the English lexicon, it is increasingly becoming the type of modern classic work more people know about than have actually read it. This is the core of Joseph Heller‘s unforgettable classic, Catch-22. Throughout all those epochs, one idea seemed to unite all wars: their utter absurdity. With thousands of years of hindsight and historical knowledge we’ve paradoxically only grown worse, capable of dishing out death on unprecedented scales. War is something mankind has unfortunately known since ancient times, and probably even earlier if we count our ancestors who were too primitive to lead records. ![]()
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