Examples Of Bureaucracies In Catch 22

Perversion of Justice: The Corruptibility of Bureaucracies in “Catch-22”
Perversion of justice is a theme seen throughout Joseph Heller’s “Catch-22”: justice, in this paper, is defined as the upholding of Western, democratic ideals (due process, presumption of innocence until proven guilty, etc.). The western ideal of justice is mocked in “Catch-22”, and the military is the source of the mockery: furthermore, the individuals in charge of making decisions and rules, e.g., Catch-22, are state officials, not elected representatives of the people. Since the individuals in control of the institution are not elected and are part of a system of government, the organization is a bureaucracy. Hence, the perversion of justice throughout Joseph Heller’s “Catch-22”, albeit endemic to mankind in general, is an implicit criticism of the corruptibility of bureaucracies.
The mistreatment of Chaplain Tappman (in chapter 36) is exemplary of the corruptibility of bureaucracies. By forcibly detaining Tappman without evidence and then denying him his legal

With the knowledge of the officers in “Catch-22” changing rules to suit their personal ambitions, one can understand that there are political implications with the censorship of letters: it can be viewed as being more about the officers getting good PR than keeping classified info from being disseminated (the only thing that would need to be censored in the letters would be the location of the base). The restriction of freedom of speech is due to institutional policies. Yes, Yossarian is the one wildly censoring letters, but the institution is to blame. It gave him the power to censor letters without any oversight, and he could do it with complete anonymity. The institution’s personal gain from having bed-ridden individuals censor letters is that certain officers are still able to use the pilots to benefit