choke on this

From Chuck Palahniuk's Choke:

"'Yes,' she says, 'I fought against everything, but more and more I worry that I was never for anything. Oh, I can criticize and complain and judge everything, but what does that get me? Griping isn't the same as creating something. Rebelling isn't rebuilding. Ridiculing isn't replacing.
'We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.
'My generation, all of our making fun of things isn't making the world any better. We've spent so much time judging what other people created that we've created very, very little of our own.
'I used rebellion as a way to hide out. We use criticism as a fake participation. It only looks as if we've accomplished something. I've never contributed anything worthwhile to the world.'"

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"Until you find something to fight for, you settle for something to fight against."