State administrative expansion itself triggers a legitimation crisis by politicizing taken-for-granted culture.

Evidence

The structural dissimilarity between areas of administrative action and areas of cultural tradition constitutes, then, a systematic limit to attempts to compensate for legitimation deficits through conscious manipulation. Of course, a crisis argument can be constructed from this only in connection with the broader point that the expansion of state activity produces the side effect of a disproportionate increase in the need for legitimation. I consider a disproportionate increase probable, not only because the expansion of administratively processed matters makes necessary mass loyalty for new functions of state activity, but because the boundaries of the political system vis-à-vis the cultural system shift as a result of this expansion. In this situation, cultural affairs that were taken for granted, and that were previously boundary conditions for the political system, fall into the administrative planning area. Thus, traditions withheld from the public problematic, and all the more from practical discourses, are thematized. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2710 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

The process of neutralization - the transformation of culture into something independent and external, removed from any possible relation to praxis - makes it possible to integrate it into the organization from which it untiringly cleanses itself; furthermore, this is accomplished neither with contradiction nor with danger. … Through the sacrifice of its possible relation to praxis, the cultural concept itself becomes an instance of organization; that which is so provokingly useless in culture is transformed into tolerated negativity or even into something negatively useful - into a lubricant for the system, into something which exists for something else, into untruth, or into goods of the culture industry calculated for the consumer. — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 161 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Expanded state administration destabilizes cultural traditions and raises legitimation demands — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2710; Culture becomes administrable precisely by being severed from practical action — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry: Selected Essays…, 161

Related

• Expanded state administration destabilizes cultural traditions and raises legitimation demands (similarity 0.92)
• Administrative planning inadvertently politicizes private life and weakens tradition (similarity 0.80)
• Culture becomes administrable precisely by being severed from practical action (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Expanded state administration destabilizes cultural traditions and raises legitimation demands #corroborates (0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2710
• Culture becomes administrable precisely by being severed from practical action #expands (0.75) — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 161