Why don't people want to have an intelligent conversation?

I’ve noticed it with real conversations and in chat-rooms.

I was talking to a guy at my school, well, he was trying to chat me up about my art. So he asked me what I wanted to do after school, and I said I wanted to be a comic artist, but I wasn’t so sure anymore because it’s really tedious.

He just said, “Oh….what’s ‘tedious’?” And then asked me to draw a symbol for him for his project.

And I was trying to branch out my friends and be nice to the “preppy” types. We can have very shallow conversations about guys and prom and money and cars, but that’s the extent of it.

If I try to talk about politics or music or opinions, they just say, “I don’t really like when people share their opinions, like keep it to yourself, I don’t care.” And they hardly ever listen to the same music that I do and if I bring up politics it’s usually, ” I don’t really care about politics.” Or they just say, “Yeah…”

And I was on Omegle out of boredom a few minutes ago (it’s a website that sets you up to talk to strangers). The first thing anyone would ask if “asl”, and I would answer and then say, “Why does it matter though? Don’t you think it devalues the conversation?” They’d just say, “Good point”, and disconnect or get defensive.

And with a few of them I tried Frank Zappa’s rules for conversation, “Don’t talk about politics, religion, or music” and they couldn’t do it!
So one girl agreed to try and I started telling her about Christmas Cactuses. And she just said “ok” and gave the link to her instagram and asked me to follow her.

WHAT HAPPENED TO INTELLIGENCE? I really only have like two friends that I can talk about interesting things with.