Ah, this I can help with.
There are at least two reasons I can think of off the top of my head, why you might want to be able to have engaging and polite conversations about uninteresting subjects.
First, in a professional setting, the ability to network with other professionals can often determine whether you have/get/keep a job, how you are treated at that job, and how well your performance is recognized within that job. For people like myself, who lack the innate ability to socialize competently or learn socialization skills by watching, the leads to a lot of problems. We have trouble getting hired because we’re seen as self-absorbed. We tend to get fired because we’re seen as idsinterested in our work environment. We have difficulty being recognized for our contributions because our lack of social skills causes others to think negatively of us, overestimate our mistakes, and underestimate our successes.
Having a script to help us perform this very necessarily yet intensely esoteric piece of socialization, that is simultaneously expected of us, and yet, that is never taught to us directly, can make a difference in whether we can actually make money and pay for our own lives. Even for those of us who do not/cannot work, the ability to socialize in this manner with peopel who have any degree of conditional authority over you can determine whether they approve your requests for aid, help you receive the medical treatment you need, etc.
This is, of course, fucking obscene, but it’s also a fact of life. As such, scripts like this can, in a very real way, be a matter of life and death.
But in a much less catastrophic sense, they’re also just helpful for building and maintaining relationships.
Your friends and partners are not going to0 be clones of yourself. They’ll have different interests from you, and some of the time those interests will be so different that you just don’t care about them at all. but you still care about your friends and partners. It would be rude, or even cruel, to refuse to talk to them about the things they love. This creates a sense of shame and alienation that can spell the end of an otherwise happy, healthy relationship.
By having a script you can rely on for those circumstances, you can still show interest in and bond with your friends/family/partners about subjects you don’t personally care about, rather than having to walk away from them any time they start talking about the nuances of daemon assignment and culture in the His Dark Materials series and how the latest adaptation, for TV, is incomprehensibly frustrating for just straight up ignoring one of the single most central parts of the novels by throwing out basic considerations on how daemons work.
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