Modern Times

Synonymous with modernity.the definition of Modern Times is that it is a time period for which no real definition could ever be given, simply because it aspires to be absolutely nothing at all, except a rejection of whatever (in its delusions) it considers "Other". It is basically a fragment of the Absurd, a massive exercise in passive-aggressive Projection and knee jerk, hide bound Conservativism masquerading as Radicalism. It is a Surd Reflection of Proteus, the ancient god's dim reflection in the fragile mirror of his foamy, storm-tossed sea.
     This metaphysical "Book Burning" will lead to the consuming of actual human beings, in the fires of war, catastrophe, famine, and disaster.— Matthew Smallwood on his blog «The Quadrivium», dated 29. June 2019. 
‘Modern Times’ is a phrase used by countless people, e.g. Matthew Smallwood. It's relatively related to words or phrases like ‘New Times’ and ‘Times New’, ‘a la mode’, ‘modern’, ‘fashionable’ or ‘vogue’.
* vogue (n.) 1570s, the vogue, "height of popularity or accepted fashion," from Middle French vogue "fashion, success;" also "drift, swaying motion (of a boat)" literally "a rowing," from Old French voguer "to row, sway, set sail" (15c.), probably from a Germanic source. Compare Old High German wagon "to float, fluctuate," literally "to balance oneself;" German Woge "wave, billow," wogen "fluctuate, float," from PIE root *wegh- "to go, move."
* a la mode (adv.) also alamode, 1640s, from French à la mode (15c.), literally "in the (prevailing) fashion" (see a la + mode (n.2)). In 17c., sometimes nativized as all-a-mode. Cookery sense in reference to a dessert served with ice cream is 1903, American English; earlier it was used of a kind of beef stew or soup (1753).
== Rhizomata ==
* Traditionalism; Modernism; New Man
* Doomerism