Catch 22- Because I said so

"Colonel Cathcart is our commanding officer and we must obey him. Why don't you fly the foyr more missions and see what happens?"
pg. 102

This situation in which the commander continues to extend the number of missions required to be discharged is obviously corrupt. It reminds me of childhood- when you invented a game, it meant you could change the rules anytime you wanted, if the game wasn't going your way. However, there was normally someone who would call this unfair, who would call the gamemaker out on their unfair scheme to win the game. I keep waiting for that soldier in this book- the one who is ready to call out the commanders for being unfair. In  this passage,Yossarian starts to do this. He is adamant about not wanting to continue performing missions, but Major Major shuts down his requests to leave. Perhaps, as Catch-22 states, Yossarian is sane. Despite all his ramblings about how he believes the war is personally against him, he might make the most sense of all.