Maybe my perspective is getting more humorous in my old age, but instead of getting spitting mad at Chipotle, I’m really quite humored by their latest attempt at helping consumers with their educational well-being.

Apparently they want to help people think and reflect, so they are taking on the task of exposing people to the “influential thought-leaders, authors, actors and comedians” on their restaurant packaging. This new campaign was introduced back in May and created by author Jonathan Safran Foer, who said, “A lot of these people don’t have access to libraries, or bookstores. Something felt very democratic and good about this.”

So, the new bags and cups at Chipotle offer some lunchtime reading material with quotes from “influential thought leaders.” Who are these authors Foer believes everyone should have exposure to?

•Judd Apatow – Golden Globe-nominated writer/director/producer, “This Is 40,” “Bridesmaids,” “Girls”

•Sheri Fink – Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter/author, Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital

•Malcolm Gladwell – New York Times bestselling author, journalist and speaker, The Tipping Point, Outliers, Blink

•Bill Hader – Emmy-winning comedian/actor/producer, “Saturday Night Live,” “South Park”

•Michael Lewis – New York Times bestselling author and journalist, Flash Boys, The Blind Side, Moneyball

•Toni Morrison – Pulitzer and Nobel prize-winning author, Beloved

•Steve Pinker – Award-winning experi-mental psychologist, renowned writer on language, mind and human nature

•George Saunders – New York Times bestselling short-story and essay author, “Tenth of December,” “The Braindead Megaphone”

•Sarah Silverman – Emmy-winning actress/comedian, “The Sarah Silverman Program,” “Saturday Night Live,” “School of Rock”

And to think, I’ve been missing all this literary greatness. Why? Because the closest Chipotle is an hour away and I just haven’t had the time to go there and read their bags. The public library is less than two miles but for some reason unknown to me – but known to Mr. Foer – I don’t have access to it. Seriously, I have returned all my overdue books, I think I’m allowed to go there, but apparently Foer knows more than I do.

Maybe my literary neglect began when I was a young child. Yes, that’s it; I can blame it all on my educator mother who has a house with floor-to-ceiling bookcases jammed with the classics. But you see, for some reason only Mr. Foer knows, I didn’t have access to literature.

 But let’s not waste time with the blame game – let’s concentrate on this stellar list of authors and what they have to offer. I can be enriched by quotes like this offered by George Sanders: “Hope that, in future, all is well, everyone eats free, no one must work, all just sit around feeling love for one another.”

Wow. Does this mean I can show them the bag and get my money back?

Thanks but … no thanks, Chipotle. I’ll stay holed up in my farmhouse, down my dirt road, 1.75 miles from my public library and sort through the classics-lined bookshelves for something that will entertain and enrich my life.

And it will be without the influence of someone who thinks animals should roam freely, people should eat nothing but vegetables (for free) and live without order, dominion and the true freedom derived from the most influential writer of the bestselling book of all time.

And thank you to our founding fathers and those past, present and future servicemen and women who established and have maintained a country free enough for Chipotle to print on their bags and for me to write about it.

The views and opinions expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of Farm World.