Faith & Spirit Quote by Mike Wilson

Stasis is the real antagonist here, and Mike Wilson frames it with the weary clarity of someone who has watched reform get swallowed by the machine. The opener, "So I guess", performs a kind of rhetorical shrug: not uncertainty, but the exhausted concession of a writer who already knows how this story tends to end. "Complete lack of any new developments" lands like a deadpan punchline, the bleak comedy of an industry that constantly markets itself as disruptive while reliably reproducing the same power dynamics.

The line turns sharper when Wilson pivots to "the artists' side of the industry". That phrase carries an implicit trench line: artists versus infrastructure, creators versus capital. By naming G.O.D. as a vehicle for "good", he signals a specific, lived effort at rebalancing leverage - likely a collective, platform, or initiative designed to protect creators' interests. The sting is in the speed: "just as quickly undone". Change didn’t merely fail; it was actively reversed, as if the system has antibodies.

"Big boys" is doing strategic work. It’s colloquial, almost casual, but it’s also accusatory. Wilson doesn’t need to name labels, distributors, or tech platforms; the euphemism is the indictment, suggesting a familiar club of incumbents whose dominance is so normalized it can be referenced like schoolyard hierarchy. Subtext: incremental wins for artists are tolerated only until they threaten margins, at which point the industry reasserts control. The intent isn’t to lament progress lost; it’s to expose how easily "progress" becomes branding when power remains untouched.