Oscar,
The following is copied from the Dictionary of Cultural Literacy-
Electronic Edition:
> Catch-22 Literature in English A war NOVEL from the 1960s by the American author Joseph Heller.
ãCatch-22ä is a provision in army regulations; it stipulates that a
soldier's request to be relieved from active duty can be accepted only
if he is mentally unfit to fight. Any soldier, however, who has the
sense to ask to be spared the horrors of war is obviously mentally
sound, and therefore must stay to fight. Figuratively, a ãcatch-22ä is
any absurd arrangement that puts a person in a double bind: for example,
a person can't get a job without experience, but can't get experience
without a job.<
For us, a "catch-22" situation could be when a copilot feels that he or
she must take physical control of the aircraft away from the captain in
the interest of safety. No matter what the copilot does, at least half
of the people reviewing the situation, will say that he or she did the
wrong thing. "Mutiny is almost never appreciated, even when it is
justified."
Mike Courtney