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The White Castle

The White Castle

Het witte kasteel

1973 · Film · documentary · 78 min

Directed by Johan van der Keuken

Documentary

Part of Johan van der Keuken's North/South series, The White Castle focuses on the impact of the West on the underclass: on the concrete realities of their daily life and on the way their existence is isolated and frustrated. Interweaving images of the Spanish tourist mecca of Formentera, a community center in Columbus, Ohio, and factories in the Netherlands, the film vividly illustrates the fragmented, alienated lives that the market economy produces and chillingly portrays what van der Keuken saw as "a conveyor belt [that] runs across the world."

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  1. NegativedontbenebbyDec 3, 2022

    The FBI is worse than useless.

    Imagine reporting a crime, having some rude woman with a foot tattoo take detailed notes and promise to LITERALY open a civil rights investigation, never give you a card or contact information, then when you call them back and ask when you'll get a follow up, get told in a sarcastic tone by the operator at the Pittsburgh office that "the FBI doesn't make promises".

    That's what happened when I literally walked my ass to the Pittsburgh office.

    (Did you know the sidewalk doesn't go all the way up the front? Some of us don't have cars, sheesh.)

    To be fair, she never used the words "I promise" as some idiot who looked like Kumar from that stupid White Castle movie stood there with his hand on his gun, but I was under the impression if someone says "I am going to go upstairs, type this up, and initiate a civil rights investigation", it's not some kind of weird cop social engineering but a sincere attempt at convining someone who is the modern day equivalent of a nuclear scientist that they will actually do their jobs for once.

    (She also said the guard hadn't seen passport card before. There's a lot of things people will see for the first time, if every time folks like me do thing like literally stroll into a field office with a stack of CCR numbers and yell "I'm not a Russian spy. Do your fucking job, or I'm getting on a plane out of this shithole" like they're the digital equivalent of Kevin Spacey.)

    And to be crystal clear, maybe, because I am autistic, I misunderstood what she said, but it's been a consistent issue of mine since elementary school that folks abuse me, then express worry I might harm them, married with an utter refusal to follow basic laws and norms, and if folks cannot handle being given the chance to do the right thing offline, I'll put them on blast whenever I please.

    I've never had a security clearance in my LIFE. I can say WHATEVER I WANT. To WHOEVER that I want.

    (Let that sink in, you useless feds, if you're still literally cyberstalking the nym I originally created for a weekend in Las Vegas.)

    - Greg.