Up-to-dateness

Outside of politics, the telephone and the cable, all up-to-dateness offends him.

[…] he venerated Big Brother, he rejoiced over victories, he hated heretics, not merely with sincerity but with a sort of restless zeal, an up-to-dateness of information, which the ordinary Party member did not approach.

Of all historical periods, modernity is the only one to designate itself, vacuously, in terms of its up-to-dateness.