In the Dr. Cywes videos where he’s talking about carbohydrate addiction, there are parts where he also mentions other addictions, most notably to nicotine.

I sort of wanted to tie these in, a few days ago, but I wasn’t completely ready to do it.

Today I watched the first half of the JD/DueDiss hours, and wrote that other raging post which again explored the borderlands between politics and diet.

Tonight I watched the second half and I give you this.

I started this clip with a quick one-off Mother Theresa joke. Then JD switches the topic abruptly to his battle with quitting pot.

Things get a bit rambly for the next nine minutes, but unless you’re feeling really impatient I would say it’s really good context and well worth the listen.

The cig discussion proper starts at 2:49:08

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The whole time I’ve been deep into the keto research, even before I understood it in terms of carb addiction, I was thinking about the Quitsmoke too. Diet is linked to politics and anarchic philosophy. But addressing the carb addiction, very valuable in itself, is linked to my desire to get unhooked from nicotine too eventually … my desire in fact to live free without any major addiction, whether it consists of comfort snacking or cigarettes or money itself.

Perhaps even to permanent habitation and a roof. Perhaps not. I’m never going to be Kwai Chang Caine, but I would consider it a blessing and an accomplishment to move myself much closer to that idealized and fictional character.

I want a taste of real enlightenment.

Apparently that will involve some sleepless nights, and it also sounds as if that may be the least of the horrors involved.

But I hear the readiness coming down the tracks; a dim premonitory vibration of a Jungian journey past the tunnels of avoidance.