Don,
I find that when names are ascribed, for persons or movements or what-have-you, it's always about power, or more accurately about control.
And so one comes along and spends much effort trying to define a thing, we'll call it Thing; and then the next comes along who doesn't like Thing being called Thing and bats back a new name or several—for Thing, for the purveyors of Thing, and for the enemies of Thing; and on and on. Maybe this is the ballgame Nemo referenced.
The point of the matter is that it doesn't matter much: control is not possible in the absolute sense, although influence is possible, to varying degrees. Many of the Dead Poets have been able to achieve great influence without spending so much time playing that ballgame—although of course even many of those were also occasional raving critics. (Raving positively; raving madly; or just raving.)
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