. "this is my iceberg" -
that bit worried me, too. - I can see how an artist should feel the owner of their 'raw material', but if this material turns out to be part of the large-scale environment, the situation changes. In other words - it's *not* his iceberg ..
Some of the problem seems to be the role of arrogating to oneself the role of avantgarde, while the masses look on passively/resentfully. I *am* really into the avantgarde of the 1950s/60s wrt modernist composers like Stockhausen or Boulez but I see those guys as totally different - real leaders, a cut above the rest.