Technocratic consciousness is less visible as ideology yet more harmful than older ideologies

Evidence

Technology and Science as `Ideology’this was a way of saying that technocratic consciousness was less ideological than previous ideologies and at the same time, therefore, more harmful. It was no longer possible to trace it back to any fundamental motif of just interaction, of interaction that was free from relations of domination. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2700

Categorization

• DEFINE: Characterizes Habermas’s paradoxical claim that technocratic ideology is simultaneously less and more ideological.
• XREF: connects to: Technocratic illusion justified mass depoliticization and exclusion from decision-making. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2699; Technocratic consciousness suppresses the communicative interest at the core of socialization — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2691; Technocratic illusion legitimizes depoliticization by presenting policy as mere administration — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2699 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Technocratic realism is descriptively accurate but costs citizens their political autonomy #expands (0.85) — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 102