The “Mirror, Mirror” episode always makes me ponder analogies to America, in which some strange point in time, the country I knew and loved disappeared in a wink, to be replaced by an ugly, vomitous, alternate-universe America, in which everything from values to morals has been turned totally upside-down.
And to add an even more depressing footnote, I didn’t even get a sexy Barbara Luna out of the deal.
It’s a shift in consciousness. People used to be nice because they had self control and knew about evil. Now you cannot criticize, and if you do you are not considered loving or nice. They dont get it.
Also humanism is the new religion. People are against spanking or controlin our government, not because they are necessarily afraid or lazy, but because they want to enjoy this chaos, they do not want to be bothered into self control, only maybe forced to the random whims of a thug or master.
Given the premise of “Mirror, Mirror”, that alternate universe would be getting better.