Best I can figure on the points you touch on, is that the sheer scope of it is part of what’s going on. That it’s not just capitalism in decline, it’s not just empire in decline, it’s hundreds of years of colonialism finally reaching a point where it is struggling to continue. And the death of colonialism means the death of a long-running social framework for the, what gets categorized as, “white” west. On the surface, it might not look like that; people might assume colonialism is only the practice of going out and colonizing, like they might assume capitalism is only the practice of accumulating capital and exploiting the working class, but these systems become a pervasive part of the social fabric, embedded in all aspects of a society.

So as that fades, what are we (in the west) left with? Those who are non-white and still have heritage to something else may be able to cling to it for support. But for somebody like me, some blend of “white” European living in the US who is too far removed in ancestry from the people who originally came to the US to have citizenship to a European country, I’m a big nothing as heritage goes. People like me have to figure out how to go from being hollowed out for colonialism/empire/capital to being filled with something that matters. Right now, I think eastern Marxism may be the best bet for inspiration.