"The Decline of the West" - Oswald Spenglers predictions

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Oswald Spengler, a German historian from the 1920's, wrote a book in which he argues that the West is going to enter its final phase around the year 2000. His predictions are based on the studies of old civilizations which declined and collapsed.

>"each culture starts with an initial religious identity, which eventually results in a reformation-like period, followed by a period of rationalism (muh science), and finally entering a period of second religiousness that correlates with decline."
Europe's original religions are dead, Christianity is also dead, most people are now secular / rationalists

>"Spengler described the process by which Enlightenment rationalism undermines and destroys itself. The Cartesian self-centered rationalism leads to schools of thought that do not cognize outside of their own constructed worlds, ignoring actual every-day life experience. It applies criticism to its own artificial world until it exhausts itself in meaninglessness. In reaction to the educated elites, the masses give rise to the Second Religiousness, which manifests as deeply suspicious of academia and science.
He predicts the rise of cultural marxism, SJW's, left-wing academia. Even predicts the rise of a "Second Religiousness" (praise kek).

>"The Second Religiousness appears as a harbinger of the decline of mature Civilization into an ahistorical state. The Second Religiousness occurs concurrently with Caesarism, the final political constitution of Late Civilization. Caesarism is the rise of an authoritarian ruler, a new 'emperor' akin to Caesar, taking the reins in reaction to a decline in creativity, ideology and energy after a culture has reached its high point"
The masses feel hopeless, unable to change anything. They turn to a strong ruler (the "Caesar") to lead them, like happened with the Roman empire.

TL;DR - The West will collapse regardless, as it is a result of a combination of factors which are way beyond the control of any one group or individual.