/lit/ - Literature

Books about altering reality with my will?

I watched Oppenheimer and was struck by all the activity of the time period. All of the intellectual and artistic movements, all the of the scientific advancements, all of the conflicts and wars, the emergence of new ways of living and new civilizations. And nowadays there's just nothing. No great artists, just pop singers. No bold intellectual developments, just the same old ideologies being thrown around. No conflict or revolution, just a global industrial society where we all work and consume. Of course everyone would say that this is a good thing, we live in a time of relative peace. But it does make me think about living in a world that is essentially "solved" to a degree.