We Learn Nothing

Essays and Cartoons

by Tim Kreider

English language

Published Nov. 16, 2012 by Free Press.

ISBN:: 978-1-4391-9870-4

(8 reviews)

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 human-sized problems: What if you survive a brush with death and it doesn’t change you? Why do we fall in love with people we don’t even like? How do you react when someone you’ve known for years unexpectedly changes genders?

With a perfect combination of humor and pathos, these essays, peppered with Kreider’s 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 “The Busy Trap,” as seen in the New York Times.

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5 stars

It's nice to read a book by someone who understands that being a person in the world is inherently problematic when so many others take it for granted that it's just normal or don't think about it at all and at the same time he is able to have a sense of humor about it. Similarly I appreciate his willingness to step back from his points of view and recognize both the limitations in his vision and in his ability to empathize while still taking it as a goal. I would go on, only he writes so much better than I do and reviews better than I can (e.g. Tristam Shandy) so I'm going to stop here.