"that Lisp is not already the de-facto programming language is just a reflection of the state of the world as a whole—only a very small percentage of the population are excited for the technological singularity, but the singularity is coming no matter how much people complain."

As a transhumanist myself I resent the arrogance that led to this ridiculous appropriation. Yes, Lisp is pretty great, but the use of other languages is not some grave cultural defect through which you can glimpse at all the badness in the world.

If the goal here is to evangelize Lisp, radiating this kind of pomposity seems like a questionable move because it reflects badly on the community you are trying to win new members for. Worse, this could be interpreted as willful cluelessness in the face of the rich multi-language ecosystem potential readers are living in.

As far as the singularity is concerned, monocultural boneheadedness is not something people associate with technological progress.

MIRI (one of the more well known groups of people serious about the singularity) actually recommend people learn Haskell if they want to contribute to mathematical, statistical, AI research.

http://intelligence.org/courses/

https://github.com/bitemyapp/learnhaskell