Every "intelligent, attractive city-dweller goes to backwards small town and teaches them how to live" movie is hedonistic propaganda. And there are a lot of them. It's one of the easiest ways to make hedonism seem normal, because it's depicted as an alternative - nay, the only alternative - to totalitarian repression. That's why any time you suggest that perhaps drug-fueled orgies aren't a healthy way to live, one billion normies descend on you to call you a prude and a fundie. They've been trained to believe in the false dichotomy of self-destruction vs. self-repression, and self-destruction is more "fun".

That's also why I have zero sympathy when these people end up dying young due to their penchant for making flagrantly bad decisions just because the TV told them to. You spent your whole life laughing at me because I told you not to drive drunk, and now your spine is wrapped around a lamppost. Who's laughing now? Me. I am.