8220Kreider locates the right simile and the pith of situations as he carefully catalogues humanity8217s inventive and manifold ways of failing8221 (Publishers Weekly, starred review) In We Learn Nothing, satirical cartoonist Tim Kreider turns his funny, brutally honest eye to the dark truths of the human condition, asking big questions about humansized problems: What if you survive a brush with death and it doesn8217t change you? Why do we fall in love with people we don8217t even like? How do you react when someone you8217ve known for years unexpectedly changes genders? With a perfect combination of humor and pathos, these essays, peppered with Kreider8217s signature cartoons, leave us with newfound wisdom and a unique prism through which to examine our own chaotic journeys through life These are the conversations you have only with best friends or total strangers, late at night over drinks, near closing time This edition also includes the sensationally popular essay 8220The Busy Trap,8221 as seen in The New York Times