[extropy-chat] Hedonism? Why or why not? Was (John C. Wright finds god)

[Brett Paatsch]

Trend Ologist wrote:

> Every pleasure is an escape from dead-end reality.
> Getting intoxicated from alcohol or marijuana is an
> escape from  reality & mortality. Films, music, art,
> are escapist. Attending church is comparable to going
> to a play. The priests and pastors appears in front of
> altars as if actors whose job is to transport you to
> another place (Jerusalem, say); another time (1st
> century CE). 

Is *your* worldview then able to be summed up in one old
word - Hedonism?  Have you a person alive in 2004 
nothing to add to the worldview of some ancient Greeks?

And more generally, anybody, if extropy is a transhumanist 
philosophy how would if differentiate as a philosophy from
hedonism?  Where are the extropian principles incompatible?

Brett Paatsch