If postmodernist times believe in de-centralization, the local, small is beautiful, DIY/PUNK and Off-the-Grid , modernity * just as surely worships megaprojects and the idea that ever bigger is ever better.
Darrell Dexter's NDP government here in Nova Scotia isn't bad (ie isn't corrupt) and is giving us the kind of competent "modern" government we can only wish we had had in the 1970s and 1980s.
The problem is that we are living in the 21st century and in postmodernist times.