ABSTRACT
Because people often lack the necessary intuitive perception and imagination for abstract ideology and political events constructed as “Pernicious-Vestiges”, it often appears as a biological metaphor of the body, helping people to understand strange things through relatively familiar phenomena and social scenes. On this basis, the “Pernicious-Vestiges” discourse is often expressed as a metaphor of disease and most of its rhetoric is derogatory and intense. This chapter will elaborate the moral responsibility and authority construction behind the metaphor of “Pernicious-Vestiges” discourse through the following sections: “Pernicious-Vestiges” and STD, the extension from body to morality, “Poisonous weeds” and “seeds” as metaphors of land and production, “metabolism” of social organisms, and “Pernicious-Vestiges” and military terminology.
