The Dimes Square Spiral

“Dimes Square” however is also a metonym for a wider Downtown scene made up of many different, overlapping scenes. It has come to be associated with a certain attitude: boredom with performative outrage and disdain for overbearingly earnest didacticism. I don’t think it represents an opposition to progressive values but rather a wish to retreat from a culture in which everything is supposed to be political. It’s a reflection of what’s also happening elsewhere. Culture is changing, rolling on as it always does.