I've used a few later versions of rule-based tools like https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/knowledge-engineerin... but never got to try the original Lisp ones. Merging ART or one of the other ones in Common-Lisp with some semantic-web tools like allegrograph would be interesting.
I believe our communication should have no centralized control. It should tend toward being survivable of anything, incl. people who think they are well meaning.