title: What's on My Mind: A Collection of Blog Entries from Overcoming Schizophrenia, Vol.1 (Volume 1)
author: Ashley Smith
description: Ashley Smith knows first-hand the fears, the fight, and finally the successes of living with schizophrenia, having experienced it all! Her story was featured in Janssen Pharmaceuticals documentary: Living with Schizophrenia: A Call for Hope and Recovery. Now an advocate, mentor, and mother, Ashley Smith lives in Atlanta, GA. To follow Ashley's Overcoming Schizophrenia blog, visit: overcomingschizophrenia.blogspot.com.
zlib_text: **A Gentle Introduction to Unqualified Reservations**
  
  Mencius Moldbug
  
  **A gentle introduction to Unqualified Reservations (part 1)**
  
  Thursday, January 8, 2009 at 5:30 AM
  
  I thought it’d be fun to kick off the year by retro-introducing the blog — for
  the benefit of innocent new readers, and crazy old ones as well.
  
  Continuing UR readers: obviously, you are not crazy. It is everyone else who
  is crazy. Thanks for coming back in 2009. If you need a link to introduce your
  other crazy friends to UR, this may be a good one.
  
  New UR readers: unfortunately, I’m lying. There is no such thing as a gentle
  introduction to UR. It’s like talking about a “mild DMT trip.” If it was mild,
  it wasn’t DMT.
  
  UR is a strange blog: its goal is to _cure your brain_. We’ve all seen _The
  Matrix_. We know about red pills. Many claim to sell them. You can go, for
  example, to any bookstore, and ask the guy behind the counter for some Noam
  Chomsky. What you’ll get is blue pills soaked in Red #3.
  
  Since we provide