If you want to know why Lisp doesn't win around you, find a mirror.
Languages shape the way we think, or don't.
The aspects you are willing to ignore are more important than the aspects you are willing to accept.
Sufficiently advanced political correctness is indistinguishable from sarcasm.
Constructing a social system that tends to those who agree with it is a piece of cake compared to constructing one that makes those who disagree with it want to obey its principles.
Some people are little more than herd animals, flocking together whenever the world becomes uncomfortable โฆ I am not one of those people. If I had a motto, it would probably be Herd thither, me hither.