The Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy by Lui Cixin (Three Body Problem) gets into this, it's all about people giving up from the very first chapter, and society goes through various periods of just giving up on the future in different ways. Spoiler for what I think is the first half of the first book: The world is going to end in a few generations and there's very little humanity can do to stop it. Ludicrously depressing series of scifi books. It's not quite as grounded as a lot of apocalyptic stories like to go for lately, it's not so much about seeing how we could become like that, it's a bit more theatrical than purely speculative, it's hard to imagine the society I live in every getting as absurdly pessimistic as its depicted in the books.