a quote and its rebuttal

From a friend's quote blog:

“Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air - explode softly - and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air. Floating down to earth - boxes of Crayolas. And we wouldn't go cheap, either - not little boxes of eight. Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in. With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach and lime, amber and umber and all the rest. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination.” (Robert Fulghum)

This sounds like a great idea on the surface...except when you consider how many of a nation’s children would perish from eating them or sticking them up their noses.  I mean, we're talking potentially HUNDREDS of millions of crayons per crisis here.  Plus there's nothing stopping the adults in charge from dismantling and mining the thousands or millions of built-in sharpeners for their sharp bits with which to arm their militaries, creating more crises, prompting still more crayon "beauty bombs", more crayons fatally lodged in young sinus cavities and digestive tracts, etc., as the world spirals happily into a dreadful yet colorful Armageddon while an omnipotent Crayola LLC smiles benevolently down upon us all. :-)