“Hasn't it ever occurred to you that in your promiscuous pursuit of women you are merely trying to assuage your subconscious fears of sexual impotence?" "Yes, sir, it has." "Then why do you do it?" "To assuage my fears of sexual impotence.” -Joseph Heller, Catch-22
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Maybe this sort of uncomfortable awareness of deliberations like these is the joke.
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Exactly this. The entire novel is about the uncomfortable nature of looking too hard at our own convictions. At the macro scale as well. Much of the book is about revealing the absurditiy of our (American) lust for war.
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