World War Who

[MASCARO at HUMnet.UCLA.EDU]

In a long post, Andrew D. notes:

>The question of which culture is being critiqued in GR is a real
>interesting one. I always saw it your way for a long time but on
>reading N I began to rethink and I think America is a much bigger
>concern than Europe. Same goes for Catch-22, in spades, while we are
>on the subject.


Yes yes yes. IMO Catch-22 isn't even about WWII, but about the post-War creation 
of the Organization Man and his happy homemaker wife.  The Mike Nicholls film 
got this wrong--w/ all those B-25s taxiing around at top volume alla time--and tried 
to make it into a war movie of sorts.  I also think the  Euro-surface of GR is just a 
screen behind which we make out, constantly, our own cultural legacy, history, 
future, etc.

john m