Transitions

This may be the first time I've ever heard anyone say this:

Clearly, today's is not an age of transition, and there is no substantial movement towards a new society.

The stock-in-trade of commentators is to delcare that there are major changes afoot, or that we're on the cusp of something big. Of course, this article doesn't really escape that conceit -- despite the above-quoted sentence, it focuses on the current transition from real radicalism to mere griping.