[BlueTemplar]

Or, instead of this kind of teleological framing, that they are entitled to their own values, but are not entitled to enforce them on the rest of the world.

P.S.: In a perhaps different sense, it has been decades since modernity ended.

[junon]

I don't get your point.

[BlueTemplar]

"caught up to modernity" = history has some predetermined direction AND the writer knows what that direction is (AND because of this the writer is good, while people who hold opposite views and/or values are bad)

Am I mistaken somehow ?

And notably, this was a fairly common view during the height of the modern age (19th century), so much that its incompatibility with societal liberalism was widely ignored, probably because it allowed for paternalistic colonialism, which made the people practicing it very rich...