Group members are individually superior but collectively demand a leader.

Evidence

From all this, it follows that the group as a whole needs a leader, and that, therefore, there can be many subordinates but only few superordinates but that, on the other hand, every individual member of the group is more highly qualified than he is as a group element, that is, as a subordinate. — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 7425

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A charismatic leader can give isolated youth the sense of existing through group power. — Ryan Andrew Brown, Todd C. Helmus, Rajeev Ramchand, Alina I. Palimaru, Sarah Weilant, Ashley L. Rhoades, and Liisa Hiatt (RAND Corporation), Violent Extremism in America:…, 376