I don't get where the vengefullnes would come. You're in a good literary company.

Your ideas sound very much what Freud and Marx wrote of modern life - the latter whom was actually really acute about a great many things (despite what other did later in his name).

You option #1 sounds basically like Aldous Huxley's 'A brave new world.

Lots of modern people have fought with the dilemma you talked about. Quite a many came to the conclusion (Tolstoy, Gandhi, among them) that farm life was the best remedy. Unfortunately a comfortable farm life requires the support of an entire civilization so it's not a scalable solution.