A Rant

Who needs essays or letters when the form of the rant exists? I would like to go down in history as the person (of course, the woman) who perfected the rant as a literary form. In fact, it is possible that the rant is the form most suited to the democratic age: It requires a reader (ideally a sympathetic reader) only insofar as having an audience conduces to the catharsis of the speaker (it is okay that the audience be anonymous, like the reader of our whining gchat and facebook messages). What a rant really requires is a speaker who wants to express his own individuality and the fact that he's been inconvenienced. It is a form that is inherently anti-communal and implies a problematic understanding of evil and suffering.