1. Catch-22 and Milo Minderbinder
... encourages the continuance of war, a corrupt dynamic between our bureaucracies and capitalism known as the military-industrial complex. Joseph Heller criticizes all levels of this complex in his wartime satire Catch- 22 through Milo Minderbinder, a businessman who excises no moral boundaries in his insane and fatal pursuit of profit. Milo's true evil is demonstrated by his complicity in betraying his comrades, corruption ... and profit should never be prioritized over human life, and our continued complacency in a system that does is the very reason why we cannot escape the cyclical hel...
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