I'd be careful about saying they're "innate" to anything; the drive for technological management and domination of life is historically relatively new, it is an

I'd be careful about saying they're "innate" to anything; the drive for technological management and domination of life is historically relatively new, it is an Enlightenment project that has carried its way through into popular ideology today. In a way, you're on the same track the authors are arguing for - the Enlightenment project, knowingly or not, started with the goal of dispelling any unknown or supposedly unexplained phenomena by shunning animism and personification - but in doing so the Enlightenment has fostered an ideology of domination of nature and whatever appears natural is natural - this means, among other things, repressive states, economic totality and using people as means to ends.