Trumpet blowing

Jon over at BiNS ponders whether the art/culture/creative crowd should blow their own trumpet or let others do it for them. I’d say both, please, but then I would. However, he also suspects that parts of that community:

just want to impress the art scene, get a few quizzical looks from passers-by and be able to moan that “people from round here don’t care”?

Which is probably true in some cases, extremely unfair in others and missing the point completely elsewhere. Thoughts welcomed on BiNS.