I think the problem is around naming them as things with nouns rather than actions with verbs. The ignorance conundrum (you can’t know something if you don’t already know it) is particularly bad with nouns because if you don’t understand all the implied nouns, you’ll hit the problem you describe. If you describe with verbs, it’s much more likely going to imply direction to take which then leads to other directions.

Cheers!

Indeed, I just feel it’s rather more widespread than ought to be acceptable for a professional discipline. Goes into the same box as all the developers and architects that wait with bated breath for vendors to tell them what next great thing is, and of course it turns out to be whatever the vendor wants to sell

“So just use a word that is ugly enough that people wont want to use it for their own purposes.
How about the Pragmaticistic Dictator?”

Love it.

“But at present, the word [pragmatism] begins to be met with occasionally in the literary journals, where it gets abused in the merciless way that words have to expect when they fall into literary clutches. … So then, the writer, finding his bantling “pragmatism” so promoted, feels that it is time to kiss his child good-by and relinquish it to its higher destiny; while to serve the precise purpose of expressing the original definition, he begs to announce the birth of the word “pragmaticism”, which is ugly enough to be safe from kidnappers. (C. S. Peirce, CP 5.414.)”
Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmaticism

So just use a word that is ugly enough that people wont want to use it for their own purposes.
How about the Pragmaticistic Dictator?

Jason