E-rants Versus Blogs

What is the difference between e-rants and blogs? For one thing, e-rants tend to have a certain emotional quality that is often lacking in blogs. Another crucial difference is that e-rants are writings which often wander from subject to subject, point to point, all within the same post.

Often blog protocols bleed into the agenda of your typical e-ranter; in other words, there is no discernible difference from one particular e-rant and a particular blog. Yet, if you look at all the blogs and all the e-rants that you can find, you will discover that there is a definite quality that distinguishes most e-rants from blogs. This quality manifests itself through the idiosyncratic ways of the e-ranter.

E-ranters wish to set themselves as a breed apart. They know that the Web and the worldwide electronic dissemination of information is the perfect vehicle for the strange, interesting, and disenfranchised individual. Uniqueness of mind cannot be more celebrated in any place on earth than on the Worldwide Web. For the first time in history, a completely lost freak has a chance to make his or her mark on the world stage.

The delusions of e-ranters are nothing for them to be ashamed about. Everyone is deluded about something, but the e-ranter just shows his or hers more clearly to the world. This vulnerability of the e-ranter is a great virtue. Demons can be released in electronic form and the response of the unseen masses to these e-rants allows a certain catharsis to take place for the writer.
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