The Mass man (n.) acts on the principle of realizing nothing, for to him the only thing that commits mistakes is the vast anonymity called 'State' or 'Society' — which grants him the privilege of being forever 'not guilty' of every catastrophe.
The Mass man (n.) today is more a helpless victim of worldliness than medieval man, serf and slave to superstition, who acknowledged metaphysical powers equal to the powers of this world.
The Mass man (n.) commits the most appalling crimes without thinking, precisely because of his unconscious inner connection with the black side of things.
The Mass man (n.) who is well adapted to his group has made his heart into a den of murderers — and the greatest infamy of his group won't disturb him so long as his fellows believe in its exalted morality.
The Mass man (n.) as a social unit is ruled, fed, clothed, educated, housed in the appropriate housing unit, and amused by mass standards — deprived of the moral decision how to live his own life.
The Mass man (n.) is what unconscious inner consolidation produces: an incredible hard-heartedness, a soulless herd animal governed by panic and lust, whose soul — which lives only in human relationships — is lost.
The Mass man (n.) is good for nothing — a particle that has forgotten how to be human and lost its soul; what our world lacks is psychic connection, which no party or State can supply.
Mass man (n.) was Jung's diagnosis for 1945 Germany, and his remedy was blunt: education for fuller consciousness, no herd-formations, no one-party state, no dictatorship, communal autonomy.