What's a Bog Toad, Really...
by Thrasymachus,Jun/28/2020
The metaphor of the Bog Toad appears throughout the works of Nietzsche. It represents a silly old fool, repeating things other people say, sort of like the croaking of an old toad in a bog (I'm not sure if it really implies that they're bald and actually look like an albino toad, or if that's just a bonus of happenstance). They are truly incapable of original thought.
They're better off just staying amongst their own kind, in the bog (as it were), where they can hear each other croaking the same nonsense, and keep believing its true.
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