What about when everyone believes different things and nobody is sure what the other person believes?
Then add to that the usual courtesy that most people do not want to offend other people, especially when it comes to people, the arguments are not in agreement with the most intensity, such as politics and religion, that all but believe far more reckless limits, at least, in what is referred to as polite conversation.
In fact, silence is often much larger. Indeed, the silk muffler a feared indiscretion is wrapped around virtually every significant field of human thought, from philosophy to economics.
So what's left? Certain relatively safe topics, like poetry, unless you're among poets whose egos are hair-trigger ready to fire back their own preferences vehemently. The story could also be a good bet, since the overall story was pretty well agreed, unless, again, you're with historians who may be vibrating with their own disagreements.
The result? Default generally charming conversation topics like the weather. Many spend entire evenings discussing such substitute content a little entertainment or irrelevant spectacle after another. Things get really exciting when someone happens to remember how someone else may look tonight. Then there is always a bold storyteller who has sided with a value of evenings of sexual innuendo.
Listening to such excited vapidity, one's mind wanders to the legendary salons of France, at their epiphany, home, read for explicit conversation about headiest themes of time, generally focuses on new insights and old illusions of The Age of Reason.
In moments wandering, it is helpful, but not whether mankind can ever get to "Another time when it has enough beliefs in common to cheer ITS social occasions with conversations that really are interesting.
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