Catch-22 and the real and immediate danger of Brexit
by William Keegan from Economics | The Guardian on (#4J7A3)
The increasing absurdity of the Tory party's march towards isolation would need Joseph Heller to do it justice
'There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind." As explained in Joseph Heller's great novel, one had to be crazy to want to do combat duty, but "anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy".
Lots of people are talking about George Clooney's new television series of the book, but I also recommend to the many people who fear they are being driven crazy by this Brexit nonsense that, at least to my mind, there is no substitute for a return to the original novel.
Hunt and Johnson are vying with each other in an absurd battle of increasingly unrealistic promises
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