{"id":384,"date":"2023-10-04T15:28:02","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T13:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/otc-com.dk\/?p=384"},"modified":"2023-10-04T15:28:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T13:28:04","slug":"the-inner-development-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stoptechnocracy.eu\/index.php\/2023\/10\/04\/the-inner-development-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"The Inner Development Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">SOURCE: Dr. Jacob Nordang\u00e5rd<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I recently came across a video by&nbsp;<strong>Lisa Logan<\/strong>&nbsp;with a critical examination about a new concept called&nbsp;<strong>The Inner Development Goals&nbsp;<\/strong>and decided to take a deeper look. The crazy stuff that originates from my own home country never seems to end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The Inner Development Goals project works to identify, popularize and support the development of relevant abilities, skills and qualities for inner growth, through consciously supportive organizations, companies and institutions, to better address the global challenges.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Inner Development Goals - An Overview\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FreqnLzBiRU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Inner Development Goals<\/strong>\u00a0concept is the brainchild of Swedish social entrepreneur\u00a0<strong>Thomas Bj\u00f6rkman\u00a0<\/strong>and his\u00a0<strong>Eksk\u00e4ret Foundation<\/strong>. Bj\u00f6rkman is a former investment banker (former chairman of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.efginternational.com\/\">EFG Investment Bank<\/a>) that morphed into a green visionary. He founded Eksk\u00e4ret in 2008 with the \u201caim of supporting the co-creation of a more conscious society.\u201d and has since 2014 been a member of the highly influential environmental think tank\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clubofrome.org\/member\/bjorkman-tomas\/\">The Club of Rome<\/a><\/strong>.<a href=\"https:\/\/drjacobnordangard.substack.com\/p\/the-inner-development-goals#footnote-1-137626639\">1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Together with&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenewdivision.world\/\">The New Division<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/29k.org\/\">29k Foundation<\/a><\/strong>, Eksk\u00e4ret strategically launched the IDGs in 2020 (it is worth mentioning that New Division created the communication language for the SDGs in 2015).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The aim is to transform the mindset of people to be in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. This is the art of social engineering or psychological manipulation. Bj\u00f6rkman thinks \u201cwe need to update our cultural software of our society\u201d to increase our collective intelligence. There is thus no room for individual and independent thinking that challenges their utopian vision for the future.<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbe980158-d1a5-47ab-8b12-23154d071eda_800x511.jpeg\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbe980158-d1a5-47ab-8b12-23154d071eda_800x511.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In a 2018 TED-talk from Berlin Bj\u00f6rklund said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>We are about to enter into a society\u2026 with Artificial Intelligence, the Internet of Things, and all the other wonderful technologies that can give us a world of abundance within the planetary boundaries, world peace, or totally not.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>To succeed with the transition to a \u201cglobal digitally connected world\u201d everyone has to get on board with the agenda and become active and conscious co-creators of the emerging new social order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bj\u00f6rklund claims that during the transition from an agrarian to an industrial society, starting in the 1860s, government-funded retreat centers for inner growth were founded all over Scandinavia. The expressed aim was \u201cnot to be politically indoctrinated\u201d but finding an \u201cinner compass\u201d to withstand political authoritarian leadership and fundamentalist religion. As this was done during a time when the state was authoritarian, this sounds like a somewhat contradictory claim. The participants should also be introduced to new ideas and technological development and giving them \u201cbasic tools for organising civic movements and activism\u201d. That sounds a lot like creating agents of change. To claim that this is not political indoctrination seems totally ludicrous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Bj\u00f6rklund the radical ideas was inspired by great German thinkers like\u00a0<strong>Goethe<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Schiller<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Herder<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>von Humboldt<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/b4dFsHgd1rQ\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is also the case this time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bj\u00f6rklunds TED-talk reminds me of several things:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 The first one is how the American&nbsp;<strong>Aspen Institute<\/strong>&nbsp;has invited leaders to their retreat in the Rocky Mountains to reflect on the problems of our day and come up with solutions. The first meeting was held in 1949 to celebrate the birth of&nbsp;<strong>Johann Wolfgang von Goethe<\/strong>&nbsp;and to promote the German heritage that had came into bad repute after the war. They have also worked in tandem with the Club of Rome.<a href=\"https:\/\/drjacobnordangard.substack.com\/p\/the-inner-development-goals#footnote-2-137626639\">2<\/a>&nbsp;I covered Aspen Institutes influence on the global environmental agenda in my doctoral thesis&nbsp;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/liu.diva-portal.org\/smash\/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A572917&amp;dswid=-2377\">Ordo Ab Chao: The Political History of Biofuels in the European Union \u2013 Actors, Networks and Strategies<\/a><\/em>.<a href=\"https:\/\/drjacobnordangard.substack.com\/p\/the-inner-development-goals#footnote-3-137626639\">3<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 The second is Hungarian systems philosopher Ervin L\u00e1szl\u00f3\u2019s&nbsp;<strong>Club of Budapest<\/strong>. A sister club to the Club of Rome that since 1993 promotes \u201ca development of a global cultural consciousness with a global perspective\u201d.<a href=\"https:\/\/drjacobnordangard.substack.com\/p\/the-inner-development-goals#footnote-4-137626639\">4<\/a>&nbsp;These were based on ideas that had been developed during the preceding decades. L\u00e1szl\u00f3 was the editor to Oliver Reiser\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Cosmic Humanism and World Unity<\/em>&nbsp;(1975), a blueprint for the new global technocratic order, as well as reviewer of Willis Harman\u2019s and Oliver Markley\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Changing Images of Man&nbsp;<\/em>(1974). L\u00e1szl\u00f3 was also the author of the Club of Rome report&nbsp;<em>Goals for Mankind<\/em>&nbsp;(1977). Both L\u00e1szl\u00f3 and Reiser were inspired by Theosophical ideas of spiritual development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 The third is a meeting that was arranged by&nbsp;<strong>Stiftung Mercator&nbsp;<\/strong>and<strong>&nbsp;Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities in Essen<\/strong>&nbsp;in Essen in 2009 called&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20090526073524\/http:\/\/www.greattransformation.eu\/index.php\/home\">\u201cThe Great Transformation: Climate Change as Cultural Change\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;with participants like Club of Rome member&nbsp;<strong>Hans Joachim Schellnhuber<\/strong>&nbsp;(former climate adviser to the Pope, the European Commission, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel),&nbsp;<strong>Ottmar Edenhofer<\/strong>&nbsp;(PIK) and Barack Obama\u2019s Climate-Tzar&nbsp;<strong>John Podesta<\/strong>. The mission was to discuss \u201cnew forms of global governance, a profound shift in attitudes and a new culture of participation\u201d.<a href=\"https:\/\/drjacobnordangard.substack.com\/p\/the-inner-development-goals#footnote-5-137626639\">5<\/a>&nbsp;One of the questions that was discussed was:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Can free democratic societies cope with the effects of grave changes in the global climate, or might authoritarian regimes possibly be better placed to enforce the necessary measures?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I think we now have the answer to that one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 The fourth is obviously&nbsp;<strong>Klaus Schwab\u2019s<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>World Economic Forums&nbsp;<\/strong>annual Davos-summits as well as their Young Global Leaders program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/drjacobnordangard.substack.com\/p\/the-inner-development-goals\">Read full article&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOURCE: Dr. Jacob Nordang\u00e5rd I recently came across a video by&nbsp;Lisa Logan&nbsp;with a critical examination about a new concept called&nbsp;The Inner Development Goals&nbsp;and decided to take a deeper look. 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