False.
People crave a king. When they don't have one, they pick the closest figure and treat them as such. Hence American tendency to turn the First Family into something of a royal family.
Just an observation.
I am. I mean in attitude. We, as humans, have a tendency to seek some sort of authoritative singular leader. Dems glorified Obama. We have a tendency to do it for Trump.
I'm not saying it's a bad thing. I think human beings just tend to crave a central king-like figure. An Aragorn or Arthur or William Wallace.
Natural leaders tend to treat the hypothetical ideal of the benevolent, competent leader as their own figure. You're right that not everyone latches onto a human being. Many people have God in that in position. Many have an abstraction. The distillation of the ideals of a leader, vaguely personified. They may even see a glorified version of themselves that they're chasing to live up to.
Take me seriously, don't take me seriously. It's observational. Agree, or don't. So it goes!
Check through the reference section of this wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominance_hierarchy
Are you thrown because I referred to the top of a hierarchy as a king? Or would you dispute that human beings are organized instinctively into hierarchical system?