According to Osho, humanity “needs” leaders only because priests and politicians have deliberately kept people mentally childish and dependent. By blocking direct contact with existence and God, monopolizing truth through dead languages and dogmas, condemning knowledge, and schooling for obedience and memory, they manufacture immaturity. An immature mind craves commandments and mediators; a mature, intelligent, experiential person needs no leaders.
We’ve been raised like kids who aren’t allowed to think or feel for ourselves, so we keep looking for grown-ups to tell us what to do.