I also liked the article back in the day and drank the kool-aid.

Except that the averages ended up beating the nerds, which is empirically observed by glancing at today's most successful and widely used software; and Lisp today is a fringe idea with its most popular implementation being a JVM transvestite.

As for Javascript being an acceptable Scheme, I'm personally happy to see it merely running in the browser and the servers of a bunch of SV startups, where it cannot do harm to society.