Everyday language silently preserves superseded worldviews as fossilized metaphors.

Evidence

When I use the word “disaster” no one can accuse me of believing in astrology, and when I say “by Jove!” no one can assume that I am a worshipper of pagan divinities. These expressions are however a proof that modern civilisation is also a development of paganism and astrology. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1599

Categorization

• XREF: This is the foundational claim that language carries sedimented ideology — connects forward to how ‘Orientalism’ as a term carries its own buried genealogy into Islamophobia discourse. — connects to: Even universalist concepts like conviviality silently depend on a Western social imaginary. — Farhan Samanani, Conviviality and its others: for a…, 76
• SEED: Essay angle: reading Islamophobic vocabulary as a linguistic museum — ‘radical’, ‘crusade’, ‘caliphate’ as fossilized metaphors that still guide thought.