there is something important about this point you are making.  If you study the policial philosophy of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, you will fins that he wspoused a class of people he called the "clerisy."  This group would be the gnerators of culture, and include, vaguely, intellectuals, artists, clergy.  The idea is a good one, but it seems it is faulty, because it is indistinguishable in practice from the overly advantaged sons of the very rich, especially the lazy members thereof.  So while I personally have always had great belief in the idea as an ideal, I also have to admit that the difficult course a genuinely original talent must undergo to prove itself and may well fail altogether under those pressures, there is no straight road to success and no pot of gold at the end of it, even though it seems that the plaint of Grey in his "Elegy in a Country Churchyard" is true. 

LLL