Roger Marolt has the courage to voice the opinion of Skico's new marketing campaign that a number of locals have.
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"Truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident."
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In the Times’ article “Group files suit to stop city effort for hydropower,” the tactics of big$$$ in Aspen are amusing.
Those that prize liberty and Jeffersonian democracy rarely subscribe to the Obama/Mayor Mick “Unlimited Government is THE solution;” however, one cannot escape the irony in the group of limited liablility corporations fighting Mick and the City [read a bunch of billionaires fronted by faceless LLC corporations.]
What is the message of these limited liability corporations? Power to the people? Community?
Aspen visitor Robert F Kennedy in January noted the fact that corporations have the rights of people, without the responsibilities of community: “Last year, the Supreme Court overruled a hundred years of ironclad American precedent with the Citizens United case, and got rid of a law that was passed by Teddy Roosevelt in 1907 that saved democracy from the huge concentrations of wealth …created during the Gilded Age. For the first time since the Gilded Age, we're seeing those kind of economic concentrations return to our country.”
Locally, the Social Irresponsibility in Advertising honor is awarded to billionaires James and Paula Crown’s Skico for their newest marketing campaign: “Before Aspen, mountain was never cosmopolitan. Very few places will you find ski bums sharing cocktails with jet setters...”
All true…unless you happen to work for the Crown Royals that own the company that markets the company town.
When Skico’s The Little Nell took over the Snowmass Club, it quickly removed employees who had previously enjoyed privileges for years from the health club, tennis courts, golf course, and especially the pools and hot-tubs.
The Crown’s hospitality division explained that guests do not want to be in the hot tub next to someone who served them a beer.
On May 17 The Aspen Times reported that SkiCo currently has 485 of the original 600 Snowmass Club memberships available to sell and SkiCo stated “that it will take 54 years to sell all the athletic club memberships.”
As Michael Cleverly reported in the Vile Plutocrat, " at the new high-end restaurant owned by the Skico, announced that none of its employees would be allowed in the restaurant as customers at any time, a notion that would have had the place burned to the ground a few decades earlier."
Community? Or ridiculousness?
There's no self-respecting bum or local that would sit down and shoot the shit with the Aspenites and the snobs.
How's that for bigotry?
Let's try it a different way.
The little guys would no more sit down and rub elbows with the devil than they would be cowed into submission to that devil.
Ridiculousness.
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