If you want to know what a society truly worships, don’t look at its monuments or its mission statements. Look at its forbidden words. Every civilization in history has had verbal landmines that trigger disgust, fear, or punishment, and the content of those taboos is never random. Forbidden words always reveal what a culture considers sacred, and when those taboos shift, it means the civilization has rearranged its moral furniture. We’re living through one of those shifts right now, and the change is far deeper than most people realize.
