If one states one is anti-capitalist, yet still attempts to make money and purchase comfortable accessories to one's lifestyle, one is accused of being a hypocrite and holding up the cultural values of society even more than one who tries to 'live the life' of the ideal executive apprentice.
Similarly, in the novel, Yossarin finds that resistance is futile over the course of the conflict he suffers, for in the language of the military and because he is already locked within the system after being conscripted, all of his intellectual resistance is interpreted with a language that encourages him to sacrifice his life for the goal of the wartime cause, at all costs. When he resists, he helps the enemy, he does not help the cause of humanity, when he fights he kills human beings, but this is supposed to be good for the cause of humanity, because it serves the army cause.
Thus, war in essence, sheds one of one's private language and life, to create one's own system of values. But this aspect of the military is similar to many other spheres and facets of society that create insular cultures of their own devising, and lock participants in, once entrapped, within a particular system of meaning from which they cannot escape. Much like gender, as well as the corporate climate of business, where an individual can supposedly resist gender dichotomies by dressing in 'drag,' he or she is always speaking the language of gender, either by dressing up as a woman or as a man, because one...
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