The bigger the crowd the more negligible the individual becomes. But if
the individual, overwhelmed by the sense of his own puniness and impotence,
should feel that his life has lost its meaning--which, after all, is not
identical with the public welfare and higher standards of living--then he
is already on the road to State slavery and, without knowing or wanting it,
has become its proselyte.

The man who looks only outside and quails before the big battalions has no
resource with which to combat the evidence of his senses and his reason.
But that is just what is happening today: we are all fascinated and 
overawed by statistical truths and large numbers and are daily apprised of
the nullity and futility of the individual personality, since it is not
represented and personified by any mass organization.

C.G. Jung, The Undiscovered Self, New American Library, 1958