Force Pre-Mod: Backwards Combatibility and Technological Retrogression

This is a bit of a philosophical exploration something that I had come up with as I often do which is basically a play on words. One of my former green beret mentors who speaks about what’s called force modernization or force mod that basically, it’s the whole endeavor within the military of assessing what’s working, what’s not working, what’s deprecated, how to optimize and modernize the soldiers kit on the battlefield. That’s always an evolving process,so it’s an entire job title to be doing force modernization. It makes a lot of sense and it seems like it would be very rewarding and very purposeful. What does it mean to innovate and not get lazy? If you do have the edge, not get lazy to where it gets dull, you gotta continue to maintain it and be steps ahead of the enemy. So I like the idea of this futurizing, this force modernization. There are so many things that he would talk about that are just barbaric. Backwards throwbacks, they always say, we’re always fighting the last war tactically and even with some of the same gear. What I thought was interesting, from a permaculture perspective, is the play on words that immediately came to my mind was, while they’re doing everything in their power and budget to do force modernization, which is gonna be always very toxic and very high tech… For me, in the spirit of guerrilla warfare and the spirit of organic, nontoxic, sustainable, ancestral tactics and ancestral force... I would call it force pre-modernization. So force pre-mod that’s the play on words I’m gonna go with here, just to sort of establish this as a meme for my own lexicon. I taught a workshop even back around the turn of the century, when I was in my early twenties, was about anarcho-primitivism and the history and prehistory of violence and warfare. One of the central themes that I developed in that workshop was the understanding the concept of technological retrogression. The technical term for the sentiment that the fourth World War will be fought with stones. It’s pretty obvious that we will want to be backwards compatible as warriors for a scenario in which we’re bombed back into the Stone Age, and we used up all the fossil fuels, all of its radioactive materials, weapons grade, etc. And now we’re gonna experience technological retrogression, meaning pulling museum artillery out from behind the glass, the literally fighting with muskets and bayonets, and literally looting the replicas and the anachronistic societies for all of their weapons. We’re already seeing this now with the chip shortage of the supply chain. So everything that was theoretical to me about the arc of war in the future is gonna be no matter how futurized and force modernized you get on that tip of the spear...how long until you use up all that high tech equipment and your budget runs out? It already depleted and been deployed and destroyed on the battlefield. So it’s a real sharp point, then that curve starts going backwards in time, and soon it’s not smart bombs, is dumb bombs. We’re already now in what some people call World War 2.5. We’re already fighting, yes, definitely fighting the last war, but we’re fighting in the last century with these dumb weapons. And the blunt brutality and barbarism nearly impossible to correctly aim, very destructive to non-combative civilian collateral damage... We’re in that reality now. So when I say force pre- modernization and backwards compatible and retrofitting, that’s all happening right now in a very ugly and grotesque manner on the battlefields right now. But to speak more broadly to this practice that I have been engaged in since before the beginning of World World War 2.5 is actually this guerrilla ancestral force pre- modernization concept. Sharpened bamboo and getting more into a regenerative weapon system mindset that’s based on fashioning impleme

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