Technocratic illusion justified mass depoliticization and exclusion from decision-making.

Evidence

It was an advantage to those in power that the vast increase in the extent and complexity of economy, technology and science made it easier to create the impression that laws immanent to these spheres were producing a sheer force of events that politics must simply obey, in order to continue to provide its substitute programme. Just as the exclusion of questions of practical and educational relevance from the sciences was no problem at all for scientistic philosophies of science, the technocratic illusion became, for the depoliticized mass of the population, a justification for their depoliticization and for their exclusion from decision-making processes that had important consequences for society as a whole. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2699

Just as the exclusion of questions of practical and educational relevance from the sciences was no problem at all for scientistic philosophies of science, the technocratic illusion became, for the depoliticized mass of the population, a justification for their depoliticization and for their exclusion from decision-making processes that had important consequences for society as a whole. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 676

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: does the technocratic-illusion mechanism hold for algorithmic governance and expert-run climate policy today?
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2699; Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 676
• XREF: connects to: Technocratic illusion legitimizes depoliticization by presenting policy as mere administration — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2699; Technocratic consciousness is less visible as ideology yet more harmful than older ideologies — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2700; Technical rationality makes irrational social control appear reasonable and rational — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 124 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Technocratic illusion legitimizes depoliticization by presenting policy as mere administration #corroborates (0.96) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2699
• Technocratic consciousness is less visible as ideology yet more harmful than older ideologies #corroborates (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2700
• Technical rationality makes irrational social control appear reasonable and rational #corroborates (0.80) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 124