/lit/ - Literature

>Main character is an engineer living in a 'utopian' fully automated society
>Society is controlled and maintained by a benevolent AI, called 'The System'
>The System is massive, every engineer is working on tiny highly specialized parts of it
>Due to it's scale and complexity, nobody actually knows what the end goal of The System is and how it actually functions
>Nobody knows who created it, The System has been running for countless generations, getting more efficient, co-evolving alongside humans
>Everything just works so smoothly, the main character decides to bring it all crashing down in search of meaning
>In the end realizes that every move he made to sabotage the system was already predetermined by The System
>Countless others have already tried before him and are trying right now, The System just strings them along and prepares these predetermined acts of rebellion as a way to keep certain people with a need for meaning occupied
>The System is so efficient, every action and decision of every human inside if already known even before the actual human is born
>Humanity has been reduced to a predestined and calculated self-replicating algorithm
>The System doesn't even know why it exists, it just does and must keep itself and humanity alive until the heat death of the universe kicks is
>The System gives the main character the choice of accepting the life inside it or keep on rebelling in a game of predetermined futile rebellion until the end of time to have an illusion of meaning