Oswald Spengler and the Decline of the West Mohd Faiz Mohd Zin History of Western Science and Technology Oswald Spengler (29 May 1880 – 8 May 1936) is a pessimistic German historian and philosopher, who equals or surpasses Nietzsche in his time. He proposed a new perspective for the evolution of cultures as a whole to explain world history, which then challenged the contemporary idea of ​​linear history. In general, the philosophy of linear history is really a powerful assumption for people and this is very influenced by Christianity in a way and has still survived in the post-Christian West. There is this common perception that we are the next step in history and that this history leads to greater freedom through liberation, understanding and technology. While it is true that there are negative events along the journey, yet they are just like speed bumps on the way to Utopia. For example, the point of view of technology seems apparently faithful to this perception, ranging from medicine to automobiles and communication; they are all slowly moving towards perfection. In Spengler's story cosmology, human cultures and civilizations are very fond of the mythology of plant life, where they grow and die. Even great culture can end and decay. 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 gave shape to this idea and then stopped writing this book. Similar to Nietzsche, he suffered from migraines and never married. He lived to be 50 and died of a heart attack. His childhood is tormented by nightmares and at the same time a......middle of paper......he is no longer interested in thinking and moves towards faith and spirituality. The Romans in Caesar's time, when the republic was disintegrating, began to resort to oracles and to think of astrology and mystery cults everywhere. this is what we have in store for us in the next century, between 2100 and 2200. "I can make more accurate predictions in this book than any historian based on this model" The predictions for the period from 2100 to 2200 are the return to Caesarian rule, the disintegration of electoral politics, the rise of the politics of force, this gradual fascination with occult and profound 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 longer as permanent as the Greek machine. Lying ruins like lying aqueducts. from gradual to gigantic series of ruins. wonderful pessimism.