The Modern World is "Posthistorical"

Recently in a critique of the modern world I read the following which makes a very bold claim, but also perfect sense:

Modernity can be called "posthistorical" because it too offers no scope for radical change, even if this idea seems paradoxical at first stight. The present age is surely the Age of Change if there ever was one, but this must not obscure the fact that the flood of changes released in modern times consists mostly of changes that affect only matters of detail and technique, and for no great time at that. On all essentials modern civilization is now just as immobilistic as that of the early Middle Ages. It is designed for the production of endless minor changes in all manner of restricted realms, with all energies mobilized for this purpose under the headings of industry and bureaucracy, and hardly any deviations of effort are permitted from these priorities. ... the final result [is] to make change so all-pervasive that every change will be countered by another one before it can make any difference, and the only permanent condition left will be just this condition where all forces cancel one another out (14).

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