Comments on: Catch 22: war satire still bites in the age of Fallujah and Helmand http://www.redpepper.org.uk/catch-22/ Red Pepper Wed, 18 Sep 2013 10:05:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: mat http://www.redpepper.org.uk/catch-22/#comment-37744 mat Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:44:24 +0000 http://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=5798#comment-37744 I recently read Catch 22 again and agree it has barely aged.

I think one of the reasons is that it reflects perfectly the advent of PR. Heller worked in advertising when he was writing it and it shows

“You know that might be the answer – to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That’s a trick that never seems to fail,” says Colonel Korn at one point.

That maxim has become a basic precept of PR since

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