I think the wish to disassociate from the cult of self is a good human impulse,
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When a language creates as it does a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.Christopher Ricks
That's not the same thing as saying that the latest account that he gives should be unmistakably taken as the whole truth and nothing but the truth. I wouldn't say he never wanted to be followed or be called a leader. (But) he probably wanted it less than it seemed at the time.
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