Teaser Tuesdays is hosted by Should Be Reading. This week's teaser is from Faustian Economics by Wendell Berry which is an essay in The Best American Essays 2009.
"But foolishness on this scale looks disturbingly like a sort of national insanity. We seem to have come to the collective delusion of grandeur, insisting that all of us are 'free' to be as conspicuously greedy and wasteful as the most corrupt of kings and queens. (Perhaps by devoting more and more of our already abused cropland to fuel production we will at last cure ourselves of obesity and become fashionably skeletal, hungry but- thank God!- still driving.)" (26)