modern v postmodern

So yesterday I was in a history of modern design class, and we were studying postmodern design. Looking at the characteristics of postmodern design and looking at the characteristics of modern design, It made me think where are we now? Modern design was classified as: Ideology and morality, seriousness, socialist design, good taste, rational structure and universal value. While Post modern design was characterized as: pastiche and parody, whimsy and irony, capitalism, "bad taste", celebrates surface, and different means of interpretation. Looking over these broad descriptions it made me believe that right now we have gone back to modern. Movements in sustainability and design for the other 90%, and communication technology that is meant to allow the developing world to begin to operate on the same ground as we can. Sustainable green architecture that is meant to be socialist, thinking about the areas and the people, the environment in the surrounding, buildings being built so that they could then be reused. There are a lot of movements now whose ideology coincides with modernist design. We are slowly trying to move away from the the throw away culture of the postmodernist era, with thoughts about reuseability and recycling, greenseal certified paper that is made from 100% recycled content, CD packaging that has seeds in it so that when you are done you plant it, office buildings that are built with high ceilings so that when the building is done being an office it can be reborn as a residential building, laptop casing that is made out of bamboo, etc. I recently read that water bottles have been banned in the city of Toronto. 

I wonder two things, one, is this thought process in design that seems to be so modernist in its essence really the majority of the design today, or is it just little tidbits that seem to show themselves from time to time while postmodernist ideals still continue to thrive. And two, if it isn't the majority, then what can we do to make it the majority? Does it start with education, does it start with designer ethics, does it start with capitalism, with a market for that kind of design, command and control regulation, or will it never start?