/lit/ - Literature

For a literature board filled with consumers of art and literature most of you guys seem really fine with the current situation going in the world right now. Do you guys not read the diaries and the history books of the writers in the past and feel like something is missing in the modern world? You read these diaries of the writers in the 19th century and there is this huge lively feeling. There are art movements going on. Certain cities become art centers where all the best artists of the world are interacting with each other. Composers, philosophers, writers, painters all the best artists of the world interacting in these communities but nothing like this goes on anymore in any capacity. There is no community. It just feels like empty individualism. Soulless. Are there any modern books that talk about this?