Car mirrors have legally insisted to all passengers and interested passersby, desperate for reading material, objects in mirror are closer than they appear. They try to remind us, this nearly inconspicuous, almost invisible image in the view, that being seen smaller in there doesn't necessarily equate to being further away, out here.
No mirror so far observed carries warnings or alerts about smoke being wielded in there, by professionals sent to distract us by way of politicians, corporations, or religions, to name only a few possible sponsors sent to trick our looking and seeing, trying to put off our few visions with unending illusion.
Also, we notice, these mirrors have no smoke detectors, nothing to warn us when such sleights of hand, such smoke and mirrors are all employed, when such Trompe L'Oeil is in use -- a true and certain need in these times, a niche left mysteriously unfilled by corporate greed, is smoke detectors for all mirrors.
Surprisingly, there are not already bills jammed through Congress, demanding their use in all public and private arenas, with a few favored corporations given the special nod for approval.
Give it time, give it time.
The standard warning message, these days, seems it should be, objects in mirror reflect life here growing rapidly weirder. As already mentioned, we could do with those smoke detectors, too.