What does it mean? It means, as I interpret it, and as my acquaintance I referred to earlier did, that you can't help but in one way or another participate in the trends and fashions of the day and act out the ideologies of the day. You can't escape it, and even if you choose to escape to Nepal and become a Buddhist monk, as Jean-François Revel's scientist son did, well, you're are still following a trend. While it's possible, nobody wants to be an outsider.
Well, does it means that if I have to use English to disagree with it, critique it, does that doom me? I'm not sure how this found its way to your admiration. Are we supposed to dislike the fact that we live in time?