A Fourth Turning Tale – Something Rotten

Denmark is in the news, Dear Reader. It had to happen…

*I mean, it’s not like you didn’t start the New Year with a Hamlet post, Clicky… /lights up and smokes…*

If you’ve been following along with my Fourth Turning Tale Green Colour Revolution guide since the start of December, you may not have been surprised that the thorny subject of Greenland and its ownership was raised again last week. Although not physically green, Greenland is figuratively green in that it is vastly underdeveloped (virginal) and still bound by apron strings to Mother Denmark.

Of course, the line from Hamlet ‘Something is rotten in the state of Denmark’ is spoken by a periphery figure, the guard Marcellus… Ma, sell us… 

*You could call it an ‘undiscovered country’, eh, Clicky? …/wink...*

*Ah, Patton recognition from Tom Luongo at the end… /taps ash… Weird, Patton died because of a glass partition, Clicky… /drags… You were popping off posts about glass all through the summer of ’24 after they tried to assassinate Orange Man Bad… /plumes smoke…*

*No, it was a different kind of shot to Trump’s ear, Clicky, but I like your thinking…*

*You’re right, that is like Trump! Saying mad things, spitting truth… /cough… completely throwing the bigwigs off their game. They can’t control him…*

*Quite. He’s beating them at their own game…*

*…/rolls eyes… And making them act stupid…*

*If Denmark is Greenland’s Mother, Clicky, then the EU’s Fond of Lying is its mouthy lesbian step-mum… /stubs butt…*

*Apparently the UK is sending a boot for on the ground. The game is definitely afoot…

*And the play’s the thing…*

The word ‘rotten’, Dear Reader, is an apt one for this Fourth/Winter/Crisis Turning that we are living through. It is the season of death and the stench of decay, be it in politics, culture, art or the unmistakable rot in the fabric of society itself has been making us all rather sick…

*Yep, turning us green; the process is the punishment…*

*Wait. Where’s Rotten Row?*

*Oh, it’s in a park, how very Green …/jaw drops… OMG! It was created by the original, unironic, Orange Man Bad?! Of Inglorious Revolution fame, another Fourth Turning…*

*LOL… /pats snout… Something’s in Dire Straits…*

Dear Reader, have a Song…

Extended CLICK5… CLICKB8: The Placid Before The Storm…

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Extended CLICK5… CLICKB8: A Fourth Turning Tale – Pick Your Poison…

CLICK5: Triangles & Squares…

CLICK5: All Rhodes Lead To London…

CLICK5: A Fourth Turning Tale – Plato’s Vodka…

Timing: The Art Of The Sync

So, yesterday, after having a whinge at being silenced on X (I am now officially eX-Twitter), I started my binge of Mad Men season 7 and the very first scene of the first episode was a prime example of a encountering a synchronicity. Dear Reader, it was a sync…

… Interestingly enough, that sync was reinforced by the appearance of ‘Fourth Wall’ as an answer on the episode of Pointless that Thoughtful Man and I watched whilst eating tea this evening. We’ve a backlog and only just started watching series 34 from September. EX-newsreader, Angela Rippon is in Richard’s chair, which thinking about it now is also a sync – in the above clip, Freddie is sitting in a chair pitching on behalf of Donald Draper, whose real name is Dick – but I’ve been thinking about how Freddie is essentially breaking the fourth wall as he makes his pitch to camera. I know that Peggy and I, both members of the audience, said “Wow!” at the same time; however, hers was scripted and mine wasn’t. 

Pointless has always been a very syncy tv show for me. I have written posts 😉 This evening, Thoughtful Man asked me I’d heard that the Louvre had been robbed during the first round of the show regarding the definitions of words to do with art and artistic terms. I hadn’t heard about the robbery but then I’d been watching Mad Men all afternoon and staying off of X…

So, French ‘crown jewels’ belonging to Napoleon were brazenly stolen from the Apollo room this morning because the Louvre is under reconstruction. That puts me in mind of Clicky’s post from this week about Trump the expert on construction and reconstruction and my post from the summer syncing Trump to Apollo.

Sidenote: One of the most unfortunately effects of short-sighted actions of X toward me has been to destroy my art. My tweets no longer display, defacing Clicky’s carefully constructed story collages. What can I say, he talks in clicks

And during my few viewings of my X feed, there have been a significant number of posts featuring Donald Trump and crowns. This one also features Times Square, famous for its huge advertisements…

Whilst on X I listened to a couple of podcasts with top quality analysis of what’s actually going on and they are well worth investing some time to listen to. Conversation pieces chaired by Crypto Rich. I have no idea if his name is ‘Rich’, a shortening of Richard but the other shortening of that name is ‘Dick’…

Finally, the last episode of Mad Men that I watched early this morning, before turning in for bed, featured both Napoleon and Apollo, and to my mind, Dear Reader, that is quite the fucking sync…

Spoiler alert: Both Dons – Trump and Draper – both ‘come back from leave’ and win their battles.

I have the last two episodes to watch tonight. It’s a great TV series. I shall miss the excessive smoking, drinking, bonking and advertising, the artform of the 20th century according to Marshall McLuhan. I also have to iron, so I’ll end this post here and leave you with a Song…

CLICK5: Wholly Smokes!

Extended CLICK5… CLICKB8: Divorcing The Old Lady…

Extended CLICK5… CLICKB8: A Fourth Turning Tale – Interesting Times…