A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
Great things never come from comfort zones.
You’ve got to have models in your head. And you’ve got to array your experience—both vicarious and direct—on this latticework of models. You may have noticed students who just try to remember and pound back what is remembered. Well, they fail in school and in life. You’ve got to hang experience on a latticework of models in your mind.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.