there's nothing magical about lisp compared to other languages. to read it you don't need a cs degree and you don't need vast levels of intelligence - you just need practice. after a while it becomes quite clear.

you're free to think whatever you want, of course, but this kind of negative attitude - "it's for the smart people, not me" - just means that you lose out.

lisp itself is not that far from a language like python (or, i guess, in the context of this thread, ruby) once you get used to it. it's really not rocket science. all you're doing here is harming yourself.