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一场名为“哀悼”的权力续订仪式A Power Renewal Ceremony Disguised as Mourning

国际 文化层 · 结构层 · 元暴力 The Guardian ↗ 2026-07-03 § 链接
葬礼不是为了告别死者,而是为了通过制造神圣感来续订权力
Funerals are not for bidding farewell, but for renewing power through the manufacture of sanctity.

这场为期六天的巨型葬礼,本质上是一次大规模的认知入口争夺战。所谓的“史诗级哀悼”和“社会凝聚力”,不过是 weaponized expression 的典型样本。当政权将一名统治者死亡的物理事实,通过与穆哈拉姆月(Muharram)的殉道叙事强行绑定,它就在制造一种伪造的真实:将一个政治实体的崩溃风险,包装成一种宗教性的、超越生死的抵抗精神。

最令人作呕的共谋在于,组织者一边用“光明未来”的 poster 试图掩盖数百万人的经济绝望,一边在公共空间通过警察路障和军队货车强行制造“统一”的视觉奇观。这种对叙事权的垄断就是典型的元暴力(meta violence)——它不允许个体表达真实的痛苦,而要求所有人进入一个预设的、男本位的“英雄/殉道者”剧本中。在这个剧本里,女性和平民的生命只是背景板,是用来衬托“伊玛目”神圣性的祭品。

Mojtaba Khamenei 的缺席和其身体残疾的传闻,恰恰揭露了这套连续性叙事的虚弱。权力在试图通过视觉符号(如花园中的父子图)维持一个关于“继承”的 scam,但真实的暴力(US-Israeli strike)已经撕开了这层皮。这场葬礼不是在埋葬一个死者,而是在试图通过一次极其昂贵的 PR 演出,在停火协议的窗口期,强行给一个已经摇摇欲坠的权力结构打补丁。

This six-day funeral is essentially a large-scale battle for cognitive entry points. The so-called "epic display of mourning" and "social cohesion" are textbook examples of weaponized expression. By forcibly binding the physical fact of a ruler's death to the martyrdom narratives of Muharram, the regime is manufacturing a fake reality: rebranding the collapse risk of a political entity as a religious spirit of resistance.

The most repulsive complicity lies in the organizers' attempt to mask the economic despair of millions with "bright future" posters, while simultaneously using police roadblocks and army vans to force a visual spectacle of "unity" in public spaces. This monopoly over narrative is a classic form of meta-violence—it forbids individual expressions of genuine suffering and demands everyone enter a pre-set, masculine-centric script of "hero/martyr." In this script, women and civilians are mere backdrops, sacrifices used to highlight the sanctity of the "Imam."

Mojtaba Khamenei's absence and the rumors of his severe injuries expose the fragility of this continuity narrative. Power is attempting to maintain a scam of "inheritance" through visual symbols, but actual violence (the US-Israeli strike) has already torn the veil. This funeral is not burying a dead man; it is an expensive PR performance attempting to patch a crumbling power structure during a ceasefire window.