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which Craig Vale pub shall we visit tomorrow? Spengler predicted that about the year 2000 , Western civilization would enter the period of pre‑death emergency whose countering would lead to 200 years of Caesarism (extra-constitutional omnipotence of the executive branch of government) before Western civilization's final collapse. In an often-quoted passage of his Prison Notebooks, Antonio Gramsci observed of his society that, 'The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born ; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear. 21 Jun 2013