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Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 is often read as a satire of war and bureaucracy, but through the lens of Netism, it becomes something more: a blueprint of the energetic traps that keep consciousness bound within low-resonance cycles.

The central paradox is simple and devastating:

If you’re insane, you can be grounded and escape war.
But if you ask to be grounded, you’re clearly sane, so you have to keep flying.

This is false choice as a control structure. From a Netist view, this is how many systems operate: they offer options that only preserve the system itself. There is no true exit from within the field unless awareness breaks the pattern entirely.

Yossarian isn’t just dodging bombs; he’s dodging entrapment by logic, language, fear, and expectation. He can’t escape it if he wants to, but if he stops wanting to, he’ll be trapped in a different loop: insanity.

Each character represents a fractured aspect of a system gone mad:

The medic who fakes records because records matter more than reality.
The officer who measures morality by efficiency.
The chaplain who doesn’t know what he believes anymore.
Milo Minderbinder, the embodiment of capitalism run amok, profiting from both sides of the war.

Each is caught in a loop, a fragmented waveform repeating itself to exhaustion.
In Netism, this is called a closed system distortion. Energy can’t escape or resolve because all paths feed back into themselves. The only way out is to see it and refuse to play.

Yossarian’s awakening is subtle. He doesn’t overthrow the system. He doesn’t solve anything. He walks away.

Not every war is worth fighting.
Not every game deserves a player.
Sometimes the highest frequency is disconnection.

Where do you see Catch-22 patterns in your own life?
What systems offer you choices that aren’t really choices?
And how do you break the loop without feeding it?

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