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  There are obvious parallels to the current war that could be made, but I noticed an interesting one the other day. Listening to the radio, I heard an oil executive saying that it's good for America that oil companies are making profits because many American people have money invested in oil companies, whether through stock or mutual funds, etc. I couldn't help but think of Milo Minderbinder where everyone has a share. "What's good for M + M Industries is good for the country."

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    In response to Colin Hourigan

    yes! For sure!!

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    .... think sociology: "whats good for the rich is good for america." this is what the republicans say in power... which is why the rich get taxed less in america.

    Rachel Cantzler about 1 year ago

     

    
    

     

     

     

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    If you haven't been to war then you can only understand the parallels at a very elementary level. This book is a comedy and you might not pick up on all the jokes.

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    the book is a brilliantly diabolical ploy, an example of the reasoning it construes in order to deploy. you cannot fail to recognize in reasoning around you examples of this book's fictional stratagems, yet you have construed them as examples--given them significance not according to their environments as facts or as experiences in their respective discourses, but as exemplifying and being explicated by this work's fictions. fictions have colonized your world, and you feel more "realistic" in your perspective as a result, literate chump

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    I'm deployed right now to Iraq and I'm currently reading it. The way it seems to perfectly describe my life right now in dealing with the absurdity of the military and war in general and with the idiotic bureaucracy that runs it, just goes to show that even after 50 years, the military and war really haven't changed and this book is still extremely relevant and is one of the best portrayals of war and military life I've read.

    Don Iler about 1 year ago

     

    
    

     

     

     

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    I feel your pain, Don. When you get to the last chapter Yossarian delivers a few lines that will perfectly describe how I think about that bureaucracy, and probably how you think about it as well. I won't spoil it for you, though, but here is my take on the book overall:

    If the "Lance Corporal Underground" had a reading list, Catch-22 would be at the top. From the sociopathic commanders to the stupidity of the mission requirements increasing endlessly and unnecessarily, all of the hilarious absurdities cataloged in this novel are daily realities for anyone involved in the military. Well, they WOULD be hilarious if they were mere fiction.

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