>everyone except the technocratic center now recognizes the current system is finished

It doesn't seem that finished to me. Life isn't perfect but it never has been. I'm betting that flawed democracy will still be with us as it has for the last century.

By the way I slightly object to appropriating the perfectly good term Clash of Civilizations (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clash_of_Civilizations) for some Thiel dumb stuff.