"But when our hypothetical Blub programmer looks in the other direction, up the power continuum, he doesn't realize he's looking up. What he sees are merely weird languages. He probably considers them about equivalent in power to Blub, but with all this other hairy stuff thrown in as well"
yeah, I see what you're trying to do here, except you're calling Jeremy a blub programmer when he's anything but.
it also comes off as a bit dickish to try and refute a point with (what amounts to) "I have more knowledge than you, and there's no point explaining because you wouldn't understand anyway"
Not trying to refute anything. Just a passage that comes to mind when reading that opening sentence. Especially with the specific reference how that seems to be common occurrence with Lisp.
In fact, you might argue that OP and PG are saying the same thing. Programming languages are habits of mind, and until you have real understanding of an abstraction, it's a lot easier to think "that looks weird, why don't I just use this other thing I already know".
