The Little Brothers War, 1950-1953

The Little Brothers War, 1950-1953
Bernard Pyron

When Douglas MacArthur sent 75,000 U. S. troops in a flanking maneuver against North Korean troops in the landing at Inchon in September of 1950 there were many "Little Bothers" - the Korean War generation - in that landing force.

So, the Little Brothers also stormed an enemy beach off of ships at sea like the Great Generation.
I came across your book, In the Shadow of the Greatest Generation, in looking for stuff on the Korean War Generation.  I am interested in that age group, which includes those who served in Korea from 1950 to 1953. 

One thing I was looking for was how many Korean War veterans who served in Korea during the war are still alive.  The statistics you get usually include those who served at that time but not in Korea.
As it turned out in time the guys in the 51st Fighter-Interceptor  Wing at Suwon and the 4th Fighter-Interceptor Wing at Kimpo in South Korea from late 1951 to the fall of 1952 were not in much danger of being killed or injured by enemy bombing at that time.

The Communists were afraid to bomb us at Suwon and Kimpo because they knew we had a large number of B-29s on Okinawa which could wipe out their airfields just north of the Yalu. 
 
But we did not know that for sure in 1951-52.
A few months ago I was trying to bring back some memories of two friends I had in 1952 at Suwon Air Field, who I had gone with to Japan on R and R.

All three of us flew to Itazuke AFB in 1952 and then to Fukuoka on R and R, and once Kenneth Hogan and I went to Kokura, on Kyusku in Japan by way of Itazuke AFB.  I remember Hogan's name but not the name of the other man, who I know for sure was in Air Force Intelligence, and I suspect Hogan was too.

​The Friend From Intelligence Next Door whose name I forgot.

​Sign On the 51st Group Combat Operations Office.  The 51st Intelligence unit was in the same building.
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​Me in 1952 by a river in Kokura, Japan - taken by Hiroko Yamada, whose friend was a friend of Kenneth Hogan.  I am wearing an Army uniform which we were allowed in the Air Force to wear then.

The Christian Hero Story Formula Taught Christian Morality to Older Generations 

I am interested in the Korean War age group generation because we were the last generation before the Baby Boomers who had traits that belonged to an older America.  I posted a thread on a Christian forum recently - "The Christian Hero Story Taught Christian Morality To Earlier Generations."  I said that the Korean War Age Group or Generation was the last to be taught some morals by the Christian hero story going back to the King Arthur stories which were later   translated into the hero as a common man, the American Cowboy hero of fiction and reality who is last seen in some films and TV shows in the fifties.  The younger age groups on this forum did not know what I was talking about. I was born in 1931.

We of the Korean War Generation, born from about 1926 to 1933, were  not the children of the World War II Great Generation, but were their younger brothers.  We are like them in many ways and in fact we are the parents of the younger Baby Boomer generation.

I did not take more than two American history courses in undergrad college.  But in 1979 when I wanted to play paddleball in the University of Texas gym on campus they let me take a reading course under Professor of History Tuffly Ellis, who was a follower of Walter Prescott Webb, the more famous native Texan of the University of Texas History Department.  Remember Webb wrote The Great Planes in 1931.

I met personally with professor Ellis once a week and we talked about all kinds of Texas things.  He knew I had a Ph.D. from Wisconsin in experimental psychology.

Later about 12 years ago I became interested in local Texas history - of my home town in SW Bexar county, which is occupied to a large extent by San Antonio.  I have a report on this called "The Road To Home." 

 https://thewaytohome.weebly.com/
 
"The Road To Home:  Memory Tracks In the Southwest Bexar County Brush Country"

I remember when working cowboys hung out in the Will Kenney store in Somerset in the late thirties  and remember the jingle of their spurs.

Social Engineers Who Helped Change the Culture Following the Frankfurt School

Bernard Pyron

Theodore Wiesengrund Adorno's, name is on the 1950 book. The Authoritarian Personality - which used the F Scale and the E Scale.  Adorno's father was Oscar Alexander Wiesengrund, a Jew.   His mother was Maria Calvelli-Adorno della Piana, a Catholic from Corsica and a singer. 

​Theodore W. Adorno


The second Social Engineer who was an original member of the Frankfurt School is  Herbert Marcuse.  Adorno was associated with Berkeley while  Marcuse was at Brandeis, where Maslow was stationed. A.H. Maslow was another Social Engineer along with Carl Rogers.  Marcuse  wrote Eros and Civilization and was one of the fathers of the sex lib movement of  the Counterculture. 

​Herbert Marcuse

Benjamin Bloom, an educational psychologist who wrote, with some others, two books on Educational Goal taxonomies, is the next social engineer.. All public school teachers must be certified by their knowledge of the doctrines contained in Bloom's Educational Goal Taxonomies.DeanGotcher quotes Bloom as saying "“We recognize the point of view that
truth and knowledge are only relative and that there are no hard and
fast truths which exist for all time and places.” (Benjamin Bloom, et
al., Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, Book 1, Cognitive Domain)

"In the eyes of the dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for
all time, nothing is absolute or sacred." (Karl Marx)

Bloom says "Members of the taxonomy group spent considerable time in
attempting to find a psychological theory which would provide a sound
basis for ordering the categories of the taxonomy. …consistent with
relevant and accepted psychological principles and theories.”
(Benjamin Bloom, et al., Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, Book 1,
Cognitive Domain)

And  Gotcher found a footnote in Bloom's Affective Domain book, on
page 166, where Bloom acknowledges the influence of Theodore W. Adorno
and Eric Fromm on the psychological theory, philosophy or ideology
contained in his two volumes, Educational Goal taxonomies.  Book II
Affective Domain  p. 166.

“1. Cf. Erich Fromm, 1941; T. W. Adorno et al., 1950”  Benjamin Bloom,
Book II  Affective Domain  p. 166.  This is Bloom's footnote
acknowledging the influence on his thinking from Erich Fromm and
Theodore W. Adorno.  Adorno was an original Frankfurter Marxist who
posed as a personality and social psychologist in writing his 1950
book, The Authoritarian Personality, in which he claimed that the
authoritarian personality and fascism are caused by the family and
Christianity.  Erich Fromm was a Transformational Marxist psychologist
and close associate of the Frankfurters.

Bloom writes that "The affective domain is, in retrospect, a virtual
‘Pandora’s Box.  It is in this ‘box’ that the most influential
controls are to be found. The affective domain contains the forces
that determine the nature of an individual’s life and ultimately the
life of an entire people”
Bloom's second book on Educational Goal  Taxonomies focused upon the affective domain.
Benjamin S. Bloom was an important Transformational Marxist change
agent who had a great influence on the American educational system
after the fifties and sixties because he wrote the books by which all
teachers in the U.S.. are certified.

​Benjamin Bloom
Carl R, Rogers was an upper middle class guy from Oak Park of Chicago who had intended to become a Christian  minister and attended Union Theological Seminary for a while.
How did a upper middle class guy from Oak Park, who wanted to become a Christian minister, become a Social Engineer for Transformational Marxism?   That is something that Dean Gotcher discovered, studied and talks about, but may not explain how it happened.

 I think the Trail of how Rogers became a Social Engineer, that Gotcher got on became "hot," after Rogers left Wisconsin, and became a facilitator and leader in the Encounter Group Movement of the sixties and seventies. Ol Gotcher was like a hound who Coyote Hunters used to turn loose to sniff out and locate the trail and eventually jump the coyote. Maybe Gotcher on the trail of Rogers was never joined by the large pack of "hounds" and Gotcher remained sort of a lone hound who discovered Rogers trail into collectivism. That is, as far as I know, no researcher has gone into details on how and why Carl Rogers got into collectivism in the Encounter Group Movement.
I knew Carl Rogers and was once his Research Assistant and later after I finished graduate school. at Wisconsin I worked on his Schizophrenic Project for a few months.  I also took a seminar under Rogers and he was on my Ph.D. Committee.  That seminar was held in the basement of his house on Squaw Bay on Lake Monona in Madison.  It was an informal class.  I remember talking to Rogers once about Frank Lloyd Wright, who had his office in Oak Park, Illinois where Carl Rogers was from.  Rogers told me he knew Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.  Rogers had prepared to become a Christian minister - before he went off to New York City to study at the Union Theological  Seminary, New York City. After two years he left the seminary and got his Masters (1928) and Ph.D. (1931) degrees from Columbia University’s Teachers College in psychology.

​Carl R. Rogers
Abraham H. Maslow was another well known American psychologist who became a social engineer.  Maslow got his Ph.D. at Wisconsin under Harry Harlow, the monkey researcher, and under Harlow Maslow learned the experimental psychology and behaviorist. view. 
Yet Maslow became a social engineer whose work to some extent helped to abolish the older culture supporting Christianity and the family.  Betty Friedan in The Feminine Mystique, was influenced by Abraham Maslow's theory of self-actualisation. In his earlier years Maslow did research on female dominance and sexuality.
As William Coulson, the Encounter Group Faciilitor under  Carl Rogers in California said, Maslow  hung out with the Frankfurters - that is,  Maslow was a friend of Herbert Marcuse at Brandeis University and had met Erich Fromm in 1936.  Maslow studied Fromm's Frankfurt School ideology. and wrote an article, "The Authoritarian Character Structure", published in 1944, that followed the ideological line of  Frankfurt School "Critical Theory."

​Abraham H. Maslow
The Encounter Group Movement drew ideas from the experimental research in the social psychology of the Group Dynamics Movement led by Kurt Lewin, which Rogers knew about. In fact. my major professor Jack C. Gilchrist, did research in the fifties at Wisconsin on Group Dynamics and founded the Group Behavior Lab, where I was a grad student.

The Group Dynamics movement started in this country by
Kurt Lewin, set the stage for the use of the Marxist and atheistic version of the Hegelian dialectic to be developed into and attitude change procedure.

Kurt Lewin created the Research Center for Group Dynamics at the Institute of Technology in Massachusetts (MIT) in 1944.

http://www.crossroad.to/Quotes/brainwashing/kurt-lewin-change.htm

"The Dialectical Process:

The intentional process of radical social change demands continual tension or crisis. These may be spontaneous or manufactured. This book helped lay the foundation for the psycho-social strategies that have transformed education and culture around the world. Based on the research begun at Tavistock (England), continued at the Frankfurt Institute (Germany) then moved to MIT, Columbia University, Stanford and various tax-funded "Educational Laboratories" after World War II, it established the strategies for brainwashing that now permeate our schools, media and organizations. See Brainwashing in America."

“The individual accepts the new system of values and beliefs by
accepting belongingness to the group.” Kurt Lewin in Kenneth Benne
Human Relations in Curriculum Change

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/kathyschiffer/2012/04/william-coulson-and-the-lcwr-we-overcame-their-traditions-and-their-faith/
Under Kurt Lewin, the Group Dynamics social psychologists did experimental research on small group behavior.  J.C. Gilchrist at Wisconsin named his social-personality psychology lab the "Group Behavior Lab," where I did experiments though not on small group behavior.
The Group Dynamics movement, as well as the later Encounter Group Movement helped to bring interest to a new American Collectivism in the study of group behavior and ways of creating cohesive groups to change individuals into collectivists.

​Kurt Lewin

Remember that Dean Gotcher  found a footnote in Bloom's Affective Domain book, on
page 166, where Bloom acknowledges the influence of Theodore W. Adorno and Eric Fromm on the psychological theory, philosophy or ideology contained in his two volumes, Educational Goal taxonomies.  Book II Affective Domain  p. 166.

“1. Cf. Erich Fromm, 1941; T. W. Adorno et al., 1950”  Benjamin Bloom,
Book II  Affective Domain  p. 166.  This is Bloom's footnote
acknowledging the influence on his thinking from Erich Fromm and
Theodore W. Adorno.  Erich Fromm was a Transformational Marxist psychologist
and close associate of the Frankfurters, who helped to promote the Transformational Marxism of the Frankfurt School as a well known psychologist in the U.S.

​Eric Fromm