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    <title><![CDATA[Ara Balears in English - 1-O]]></title>
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      <title><![CDATA[In Praise of the Baton]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>Movistar premiered a series about the repressive state police. It's called <em>Riot police</em> And it's quite good; Rodrigo Sorogoyen is a very good director and screenwriter; with this series, he did an excellent job. He portrayed a whole group of individuals who work for the Spanish state security forces and who, when necessary, must put down their batons and attend to whomever the command tells them to. These men weren't extraordinary: they were fallible, weak, sometimes exhibiting all the tendencies of that 'toxic masculinity' that the director had already portrayed in other works of fiction. But thanks to the cinematic vision, you connected with them, you ended up liking them, and you followed the hypothetical story of their corruptibility; ultimately, it validated Hannah Arendt's idea of ​​the 'banality of evil,' which perhaps wasn't applicable to the Nazis, but certainly to 'democratic' security forces that simply enforce the law without asking too many questions, however much this might mean infuriating the public.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Melcior Comes]]></dc:creator>
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