Administrative planning politicizes the private sphere as an unintended side effect

Evidence

At every level, administrative planning produces unintended unsettling and publicizing effects. These effects weaken the justification potential of traditions that have been flushed out of their nature-like course of development. Once their unquestionable character has been destroyed, the stabilization of validity claims can succeed only through discourse. The stirring up of cultural affairs that are taken for granted thus furthers the politicization of areas of life previously assigned to the private sphere. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 678

Categorization

• DEFINE: Nature-like course of development: traditions uncritically absorbed rather than consciously affirmed; their destruction forces discourse.
• XREF: Thesis directly relevant to any study of state regulation of private life, from sumptuary law to digital governance.