A Catch-22 Situation

I've noticed that a lot of people seem to use this term without knowing the true meaning of it. Well here's a litte note on how to use it correctly.

It's actually derived from the book Catch-22 which was later made into an appalingly bad movie (someone like yossarian just doesnt exist in this world). Catch-22 is about bomber pilots in the 2nd world war who basically dont give a damn about the war. As a result the army has included several laws to prevent these guys from finding loop holes to get out of duty. most of these laws are Catch-22's. For example yossarian asks the doc, "so if I claim insanity can I get out of bombing runs" then doc says "of course, the army would have no choice but to take you off duty, we cant let insane people drop bombs" . Then yossarian says " so then i'll claim im insane and get out of duty" then the doc says "well, by the fact that you have claimed yorself to know that you're insane or not, the army will judge you to be perfectly sane". There you see it, so a catch-22 is actually a no-win situation which you cant get out of similar to the above. use the term wisely =)