I used to, and still do sometimes, feel similarly about "things like this," I think as you're feeling now. I would describe myself as extremely cynical, would you? Do you feel similarly about the following? I do / did:

1. Mindfulness

2. Religion

3. White lies

4. Meditation

5. Astrology

6. ENTP whatever that pop psych test is

7. Sharing feelings

8. Psychology

9. Being very supportive of someone making obvious mistakes

10. Description placards on abstract art

11. Professionalism

12. Using the word "spaces" i.e. "creating spaces for contemplation"

This is just me thinking out loud, not necessarily describing you here, but I've noticed that I myself share a sort of way of thinking with the 4chan / net-present crowd I grew up with. I'm not sure if our personalities drew us to similar places on the internet, or if we were sort of fostered into a similar set of personalities because of the nature of these environments and cultures.

My best effort to define this vague sort of culture / personality / ideology is a sort of radical valuing of the truth, and seeking truth in all things.

> Sure it's rude to call him fat, but if I was fat I'd want someone to tell me, how are we supposed to get better if we don't know what's wrong with us?

> Depression is bullshit, everyone feels sad, you're gonna pay a psychologist 200 bucks an hour to tell you that? Life sucks, so it goes

> Yeaaah I'm not going to "talk about my feelings," that sounds like a waste of time, let's just go do xyz instead

I would feel angry if someone suggested meditation. What a fucking joke, sitting around doing nothing for 8 minutes to an hour? Come on. I would see people being really supportive and roll my eyes. "Yeah right, secretly they hate eachother / judge eachother. Take food away from both of them for just two days and watch how quickly they'll stab eachother in the back."

Again, this is not me describing you, your comment just happened to remind me of how I used to be. Looking back, I don't understand why I was so full of hate, judgement, and arrogance. I really believed that the happy people HAD to be lying about it, because I wasn't happy. I really believed everyone was secretly judging eachother, cause that's what I was doing. I really believed that various psychological techniques just had to be total bullshit, because I never genuinely tried them in good faith, and just assumed they were konk science.

I learned over time that being aware of my feelings was important and difficult, and that the various strategies I assumed were bullshit (like the ones in this post) actually can be interesting and effective ways to learn more about myself, if I set aside my anger, hatred, judgement, and genuinely tried them. I realized I was carrying a LOT of anger around, some of it directed at me for having insanely high standards for myself, my morals and values, and my failure to live those standards out perfectly, a lot of it directed outwards at other people for not being the way I thought people should be.

Regardless, activities like this, silly though they may be, were all tools in a toolbelt of self discovery. As a general rule I've learned that new skills and experiences are earned through discomfort or suffering of some kind, and thus naturally to develop myself, my Mind, my personality, I had to suffer through some stuff I really thought was just so stupid, and some of it I still do, but I try to keep an open mind and do genuinely find myself surprised at what I learn when trying these things out.

If I stop assuming I already have all the answers and give an earnest and good faith try to some of this stuff, I learn. That's basically the TLDR.