'phd professors'
ah, see i don't go to school any more, so am free to disregard their rulings on such things.
thanks for all this good thought-food. though batman, as an example, is something owned and regulated by a specific company (or non-specific megacorporation really, but nevermind that), i'd argue that fact is meaningless to the majority or at least a huge proportion of batman's end-users. i was aware of batman, and with friends in the playground had created dozens of batman stories, long before i had heard of dc or bob kane. of the many people who were running around with parkas-for-capes (ahh, such days...), i'm probably the only one who has the faintest idea who bob kane is.
i think the same applies to christian rosenkreutz. the first translation of the tale from german into french and then english signified a huge step away, a democratisation if you like, from the intent or control of the originators of the idea. despite professed allegiances, the early cells of rosicrucians around europe were not homogenous entities because, as with all things, they were populated by different individuals operating in different political and social realities.
despite the best efforts of academics and copyright-lawyers, fictions are just too slippery to be controlled by, well, 'rules'. that's why we like playing with them.
i reckon. |
