I find that there’s a huge generation gap in the ability to communicate here. I am not sure what happened, but people around 30 years and older can typically converse quite well, understand and make jokes, argue points, listen to counter-arguments, and on the whole, are capable of deep and interesting conversations. But when you drop below 30, for some reason, people are incapable of talking about anything other than something superficial, and even in those conversations, their replies tend to stick to “yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes” then the conversation dies. It’s really odd, but they just can’t form connections to people the way the older generations can.