Insanity
The world has gone mad.

Since when is hedonism an expunging of bitterness and self-loathing? Not that either of those things are bad. But don't give hedonism a bad name by making people think these things are enjoyable, or making people think that bad feelings of the self = hedonism. Not only is this a misrepresentation, I'm pretty sure it makes you a bad person.

Hedonism = pleasure. Do something because you enjoy it, because it makes you feel good in some capacity. When it stops making you feel good, STOP DOING IT. It's very simple. Now, that being said, some degree of self-loathing can be enjoyable, admittedly. But I'm sorry, you can't tell me that misery = pleasure on any sort of consistent basis.

So to those of you who wallow in the pit of your own despair, knock it off. You give us good-timers a harder row to hoe in the end. And that, of course, is the last thing we want.