What did ‘Catch-22’ actually predict about today’s world?

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  • June 21, 2019

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This article has been published to coincide with an episode of Mashable’s new podcast, Fiction Predictions. Listen here.

Like 1984, Catch-22 is one of those books that seems to be absolutely everywhere at the moment.

Aside from the recent miniseries, the actual phrase itself often crops up in news articles and casual conversation, and it even has its own place in the dictionary.

“If you describe a situation as a Catch-22, you mean it is an impossible situation because you cannot do one thing until you do another thing, but you cannot do the second thing until you do the first thing,” reads the entry. Read more…

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What did ‘Catch-22’ actually predict about today’s world?