You're missing the entire point of the question...

What about using public money to subsidise 'elitist' opera?
What about streamed education as being 'elitist'?

And "mutally-masturbatory introspective back-slapping groups of penis-compensating soulless idiots are not my scene."? C'mon, Joe. You're involved in student politics. There's no social grouping which is a better exemplar of what you say isn't your scene than the cliques which rule student unions up and down the land.