Creativity Quote by Greg Ginn

There’s a punk-ish bluntness to Greg Ginn’s take, but it’s not the romantic punk myth of brave indies versus evil majors. It’s closer to the cold shower version: if you build your identity around being hunted, you’ll eventually start acting like prey. In that sense, the line reads like a warning to a scene that often treats persecution as proof of purity. Ginn’s intent is corrective, even confrontational: stop outsourcing your failures to the industry’s boogeymen and look at your own operations, your own choices, your own competence.

The subtext is a diagnosis of how resentment becomes strategy. “Majors are predators” may be true in plenty of cases, but Ginn argues that repeating it can function as a permission slip: for sloppy planning, for weak product, for bad leadership, for not evolving. He’s calling out a psychological trap where victimhood becomes branding, and branding becomes inertia. The phrasing “eventual downfall” is doing extra work; it suggests a slow-motion collapse fueled by self-justification, not a sudden ambush by corporate power.

Context matters: Ginn comes out of hardcore’s DIY ecosystem, yet he also ran SST, a label that dealt with distribution, contracts, and the unglamorous machinery behind the music. From that vantage point, paranoia about majors can look like an alibi for not mastering the basics. It’s a hard line because it refuses a satisfying villain. It dares independents to be accountable even when the game is rigged.