Robert Balzola: The Battle for the Intellectual Commons By Professor X

Sydney lawyer Robert Balzola gave a tremendous seminar this year, delivered at the Australian League of Rights National Seminar Adelaide SA Australia 8 October 2022, entitled, “Restoring the Intellectual Commons Our Intellectual, Spiritual and Constitutional Inheritance.” A printed version is here:

https://alor.org/Storage/Library/PDF/Balzola_R-On_Intellectual_Commons.pdf   

However, the actual presentation by a great public speaker, one who works through the art of persuasion, should be heard to be fully enjoyed, as rhetoric is one of the lost intellectual arts that he thinks should be reclaimed. He rightly argues that proper intellectual activity is to engage in the great conversation of humanity, and that involves engaging with the classical texts from the pre-Socratic thinkers on. And, it is more than just a literature engagement, for understanding philosophy, ontology (what exists), metaphysics (the nature of things), epistemology (the theory of knowledge) and science itself, is also necessary. Mr Balzola says:

“Indeed, philosophy and theology in all their principal and subordinate sciences have been systematically removed from the body of science in favour of a new sequence of pseudoscience couched in terms of ‘science’ with informal evaluatives to deceive the uneducated and those not immersed in classical education. Such informal evaluatives as ‘exact science’, ‘natural science’, ‘medical science’ and just ‘science’ have come to be studies discalced of philosophy and theology. This is why logic is not taught in the exercitants within universities until at least post-graduate level along with classical education model which is defined below in this paper.”

While there may be a few that might find Brian Simpson’s relentless examination of all aspects of the Covid vax “science,” or pseudo-science, somewhat challenging, the issue is not to cease or dumb down  such work, but for people to try and learn more (such as symbolic logic) and intellectually rise up, and in doing so, they are grasping the intellectual commons, rather than allowing a group of Leftists to secure it, which is exactly what has happened today, as seen in the universities, which I have relentless covered since 2005. Mr Balzola says: “The Era of the Modern is a post modernist nightmare where the intellectual commons is in a dire state of intellectual pollution.” This will involve a return to the classical approach to education:

“Classical education involves inculcation in the Trivium and Quadrivium. The Trivium is the threefold path in Grammar, Logic and Rhetoric. The Quadrivium is the fourfold path in arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy. The advent of technology with rhetoric has brought with it the rapid proliferation of intellectual pollution with near zero financial costs of promulgation of that pollution and poison. Restoration of Right Reason requires individuated inculcation. It is akin to restoring a zombie to human normalcy.”

Mr Balzola’s response to this largely Leftist deconstruction of all that is good, true, just and holy is as follows: “This task is accomplished by individuated education of polity through restoration of right reason and the shunning of evil by the proliferation of ignorance through medium of communications through partaking in the Great Conversation of Ideas by application of right reason and recourse to the truths discovered by those participants in the Great Conversations.”

I would argue the case before anyone, that ALL of the Alor.org material does this, for the role of social credit in its widest sense is to defend the cultural heritage of Western Christendom, from economics to philosophy and theology, and from art to mathematics, and beyond. I see the blog as a vital part of this, produced by tireless workers who share Mr Balzola’s noble Western values, delivered in one of the most intellectually stimulating speeches I have heard in years.