Fair Game column by Paul Andersen in The Aspen Times.
"The Aspen experience of today pales by comparison to a vision from 70 years ago when Chicago industrialist and enlightenment thinker Walter Paepcke hoped to create a model of Plato’s Republic. ...
"The Republic of Aspen would convene thinkers, writers and artists manifesting the Aspen Idea through the triumph of the Platonic over the Machiavellian. 'The Aspen Experience,' wrote Mortimer Adler, philosopher emeritus of the Aspen Institute, uniquely demonstrated 'that in the scale of values the Platonic triad of the true, the good and the beautiful takes precedence over the Machiavellian triad of money, fame and power.'"
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