That’s the world we live in.”Ĭurtis introduces Garrison toward the end of the first hour of “Can’t Get You Out of My Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World,” his new, six-part series of films that will be released by the BBC on February 11th. They make associations, and there’s no meaning.
“Then I stumbled on ‘Time and Propinquity’ and I just thought, Yes. I find them boring,” Curtis told me recently. At the time, Curtis was trying to make sense of the political fracturing and rampant disinformation that accompanied the election of Donald Trump and, in his own country, the Brexit vote. A few years ago, the British filmmaker Adam Curtis came across Garrison’s memo in “ The Prankster and the Conspiracy,” a book by the zine writer and self-described crackpot historian Adam Gorightly.
Garrison believed that the best way to uncover well-hidden conspiracies was by noticing seeming coincidences-when two people happened to live a few blocks from each other or when someone ran a bar around the corner from where a cache of heroin was seized-and assembling a pattern from the resulting swamp of names, addresses, and dates. In February, 1967, Jim Garrison, the New Orleans district attorney, wrote a five-page memo called “Time and Propinquity: Factors in Phase I,” which revealed some of the spurious connections he was making in his attempt to outline what he believed was the true nature of the assassination of President John F.
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