Power disguised as scientific and technological necessity becomes effectively unassailable.

Evidence

Marcuse had attempted to define it as a fusion of technology and power. Technology as powerthe foremost characteristic of this was that power, by seeming to have taken on the shape of scientific rationality and technological necessity, appeared unassailable. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 675

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The mechanism — legitimacy of domination achieved by cloaking it in technical necessity rather than overt coercion — is a compact but paradigm-shifting core of Marcuse’s argument.