On Aug 12, 1628, the Swedish council wrote to the King: the mighty warship Vasa sank just minutes into its maiden voyage. It listed to port, water poured through , and it sank with sails & flags still flying. Most aboard died. The council had no explanation for how this happened.
The Vasa was a hyperbolic expression in marine architecture — never meant to sail. So why build it? The answer lies in the irrationalism inherent to hierarchy, the Führerprinzip: follow orders, don't think. The Gothic King is always right, dresses blind obedience in silk pride.
Another culprit was Johannes Bure, court occultist and admirer of John Dee. Bure believed in rune magic, apocalyptic prophecies, and a "Third Reich of the Holy Ghost" [sic!] rising from the North. He helped convince the boy king to wage war against the Catholic Church, at any cost.
Bure spent decades decoding divine numbers, lost child after child and wept in his diary asking forgiveness for all the blood spilled in the war he helped cause. The Vasa wasn't just a shipwreck, it was the physical sinking of a kingdom drunk on the occult, authority, and war.
A late Happy May Day to you all!