![]() I like to think I am immune from many of these fears, but that is just hubris of course, they are in the very air we breathe, the culture we follow, the politics of our world. Older people are bombarded with warnings about retirement, income, the cost of health care, the loss of memory, the burdens they place on their loved ones and society, their warehousing in the new ghettos of the aging. In America, there is little grace in the public view of aging, it is mostly all about fear, less, money and worry. When you get older, you worry about your body, the air if filled with old people talk, chatter about memory loss and fuzziness. Who would not want his brain enhanced, especially a writer? Maybe I could make some more money, like these guys. The Amazon listing calls Addium “the most powerful brain enhancer in the world.” Jeez, I thought, three older and successful guys all swearing by a brain supplement they said they had been taking for years. Smart pills, they call them, capitalism is an amazing thing, it is all about changing our notions of what we need. I make my living from my brain, my mind is everything to me, the idea that my brain can be supported and re-furbished – “cerebral enhancement complex” – says the pill, was irresistible, a fever. Several Trump recommendations for the pills showed up on my Facebook Page, it is possible they were ads, or even fraudulent – how could one know? – and then I saw recommendations for the same pills from Denzel Washington and Warren Buffett. I wrote earlier in the week that I had read about Donald Trump’s glowing recommendation for a brain support formula called Addium, a so-called miracle brain supplement only available online. (This is the third and final in my series on “Getting Trumped,” whereas Donald Trump not only gets onto my head but into my head.
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