> Your best hope is being the person running the pencil machine. Or, see what is coming and hop on that cart for the short lives we have. Pencils. There is a

> Your best hope is being the person running the pencil machine. Or, see what is coming and hop on that cart for the short lives we have. Pencils. There is a hobby primitive survival, bushcraft, or primitive skills (youtuber John Plant in "Primitive Technology" is best example). I am certain we could come up with a path to create "pencils". We would just need to define what we agree to be a "pencil" first. Is a stick of graphite or even wood charcoal wrapped in sheepskin a "pencil". Would a hollowed juniper branch stuffed with the writing material a "pencil"?