<Dd> "How am I supposed to gain experience (to find a good job) if I'm constantly turned down for not having any?" </Dd> <P> Catch - 22s often result from rules, regulations, or procedures that an individual is subject to but has no control over because to fight the rule is to accept it . Another example is a situation in which someone is in need of something that can only be had by not being in need of it (e.g a bank will never issue someone a loan if they need the money). One connotation of the term is that the creators of the "catch - 22" situation have created arbitrary rules in order to justify and conceal their own abuse of power . </P> <P> Joseph Heller coined the term in his 1961 novel Catch - 22, which describes absurd bureaucratic constraints on soldiers in World War II . The term is introduced by the character Doc Daneeka, an army psychiatrist who invokes "Catch 22" to explain why any pilot requesting mental evaluation for insanity--hoping to be found not sane enough to fly and thereby escape dangerous missions--demonstrates his own sanity in creating the request and thus cannot be declared insane . This phrase also means a dilemma or difficult circumstance from which there is no escape because of mutually conflicting or dependent conditions . </P> <P> "You mean there's a catch?" </P>

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