"It is virtually not assimilable to our reason that a small lonely man felled a giant in the midst of his limousines, his legions, his throng, and his security. If such a non-entity destroyed the leader of the most powerful nation on earth, then a world of disporoportion engulfs us, and we live in a universe that it absurd.â€
We do live in a world that is absurd. We treat leaders like gods; humans always have. Fact is they are little different from us aside for ability to focus on their work and have connections & money to leverage. Nonetheless we absurdly impute to them wisdom, dominion, power, and immortality over us.