Life is hard, and then you die.
Sufficiently advanced political correctness is indistinguishable from sarcasm.
Suppose we blasted all politicians into space. Would the SETI project find even one of them?
If you want to know why Lisp doesn't win around you, find a mirror.
Well, take it from an old hand: the only reason it would be easier to program in C is that you can't easily express complex problems in C, so you don't.
Unformed people delight in the gaudy and in novelty. Cooked people delight in the ordinary.