User:GRTUD

GRTUD (born Nov. 19, 1961) is the user name/acronym of a guerrilla internet writer and fan of the psychedelic rock band, The Grateful Dead and their contemporary off-shoot bands. The acronym originates from the Grateful Dead song, “(The) Golden Road to Unlimited Devotion”.

Premise: GRTUD advocates unorthodox methods to fight what he describes as “the systematic institutionalization of the human condition”, whereas global enterprises shunt creative and personal discovery in lieu of the pursuit of material wealth and power which he believes is being controlled by a small group of individuals that collude routinely to circumvent national and international law to build mega monopolies in the areas centering around communications, energy and commodities. This control is exerted through what he refers to in the United States as “The Fourth Branch of Government” or the military industrial complex or MIC.

Primary Education: GRTUD received his primary education (both elementary and high school) in the private Catholic education system in the Washington D.C. Archdiocese over the course of 12 years, graduating from Bishop McNamara High School in 1979. His years both at Bishop McNamara H.S. and at Holy Family Elementary School from 1966 to 1975 have been a constant influence on his life in a positive and creative way.

Secondary Education: GRTUD is primarily self-educated but achieved an Associate Arts Degree in General Studies (Suma Cum Laude) in 1998, from Anne Arundel Community College. After applying to several local colleges for undergraduate programs, he became disillusioned by formal education due to what he described as a process that likened U.S. colleges to “filthy sausage factories” or more recently, “the real life soylent green factories”, a reference to the 1973 movie of the same name starring Charleton Heston.

Religious beliefs: GRTUD has maintained over the past 20 years that religion and science describe the same universe (observable and quantum). Humans' relationship to such realities and the nature of human life has yet to be defined due to confusion about esoteric meanings of said observations and that of the existence a "Creator" or "God". The notion of good and evil has circumvented a deeper relationship each individual has with the process of self discovery and thus our origins and destinations. GRTUD is now using the model of a thought experiment by Erwin Schrödinger known as Schrödinger's cat thought experiment to explore the notion that God both exists and does not, at the same "time". This belief centers on a philosophical notion that all perception is real, regardless of factual accuracy or comprehension. GRTUD maintains that there are positive attributes to atheism and agnostic thought as well devotion to most all traditional religion. He has often defined mathematics as a religion.

Science: GRTUD is a devotee of Nikola Tesla and has called Tesla "the patron saint of the industrial age".