Oswald Spengler and the decline of the WestMohd Faiz Mohd ZinHistory of Western science and technologyOswald Spengler (May 29, 1880 – May 8, 1936) was a pessimistic German historian and philosopher, which equals or exceeds Nietzsche. at his own pace. He proposed a new perspective for the evolution of cultures as a whole to explain world history, which challenged the contemporary idea of ​​linear history. Generally speaking, the philosophy of linear history is really a powerful hypothesis for people and it is very influenced by Christianity in some way and has still survived in the post-Christian West. There is a common perception that we are the next stage of history and that this history leads to greater freedom through liberation, understanding and technology. While it's true that there are bad events along the journey, they're all speed bumps on the way to utopia. For example, the view of technology seems true to this perception, which ranges from medicine to automobiles and communication; they all progress slowly towards perfection. In Spengler's historical cosmology, human cultures and civilizations closely resemble the mythology of plant life, where they grow and die. A great culture can also end and deteriorate. Spengler published the first volume of The Decline of the West in 1919, when Germany lost the First World War. He disliked academics and lingered on the fringes of German cultures. For ten years he became a high school teacher and gradually shaped this idea, then stopped to write this book. Similar to Nietzsche, he suffered from migraine headaches and never married. He lived to the age of 50 and died of a heart attack. His childhood is tormented by nightmares and at the same time a ...... middle of paper ...... one is no longer interested in thought and turns to belief and spirituality. The Romans, in Caesar's time, when the republic was disintegrating, began to look to oracles and think about astrology and mystery cults everywhere. this is what we have in store for the next century, between 2100 and 2200. "I can make predictions in this book more accurate than any historian based on this model." Predictions for 2100 to 2200 are a return to Caesarean domination, a disintegration. of electoral politics, the rise of power politics, this progressive fascination with occult and deep spirituality. our technology comes from the soul of our culture, as we die, our technological system will die with us. for them it is no more a permanent thing than a Greek machine. Ruins elongated like elongated aqueducts. progressive to a gigantic series of ruins. wonderful pessimism.