Biden is too old, at 81. He seems senile. Trump is just as old, at 77. He seems confused.
Both men have made many gaffes that raise questions about their age. Biden confused the leader of Egypt with the leader of Mexico. Trump confused the leader of China with the leader of North Korea.
I wonder, though, if the problem is not their age, but their white savior complex.
Let’s face it. Aging has its challenges, as I am discovering.
My body can’t accomplish the feats I seamlessly performed forty years earlier. I’m specifically thinking of acrobatic disco. I am beginning to feel pains in parts of my body I didn’t even know existed when I wake up in the morning.
As my final resting place appears closer on the horizon, I am slowing down, publishing one book a year rather than my usual two. But if I can quote that great moral philosopher, Monty Python, “I’m not dead yet.”
Ageism is a form of bigotry I never spent much effort trying to understand. I was too busy struggling against ethnic discrimination.
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