Self-obsessed establishments can live in their illusory worlds all they want – it won’t change the fact that a new world is upon us Oswald Spengler, eccentric German arch-conservative, brilliant author of “The Decline of the West,” and proud pessimist extraordinaire ( “optimism is cowardice” ), could also be rather woke: You will find no more disdainful scorn or biting derision for the West’s navel-gazing than his. Skewering the Occident’s “provincial presuppositions,” naïve vanity, and self-