Who said it: Russell Brand or Slavoj Žižek?

You might think they have nothing in common but their on-trend beards. But no. Which, then, of 2013's leading penseurs said the following?
  
  


  1. “Life is not a theme park, and if it is, the theme is death.”

    1. Brand

    2. Žižek

  2. “There is going to be a revolution.”

    1. Brand

    2. Žižek

  3. "It is illusory to expect that one can actually change things by ‘extending’ democracy.”

    1. Brand

    2. Žižek

  4. “Why vote? We know it’s not going to make any difference.”

    1. Brand

    2. Žižek

  5. “We are too narcissistic to risk any kind of accidental trip or fall. Even into love!”

    1. Brand

    2. Žižek

  6. “Of all the consumer products, chewing gum is perhaps the most ridiculous: it literally has no nourishment – you just chew it to give yourself something to do with your stupid idiot western mouth.”

    1. Brand

    2. Žižek

  7. “99% of people are boring idiots.”

    1. Brand

    2. Žižek

  8. “Nowadays, you can do anything that you want – anal, oral, fisting – but you need to be wearing gloves, condoms, protection.”

    1. Brand

    2. Žižek

  9. “The threat today is not passivity but pseudo-activity, the urge to ‘be active’, to ‘participate’, to mask the Nothingness of what goes on.”

    1. Brand

    2. Žižek

  10. “You must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from that idea that people are watching you.”

    1. Brand

    2. Žižek

Solutions

1:A, 2:A, 3:B, 4:A, 5:B, 6:A, 7:B, 8:B, 9:B, 10:A

Scores

  1. 0 and above.

    Oh dear. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YR4CseY9pk">Study Paxo v Brand, and then try again.</a>

  2. 4 and above.

    Not bad. Will you be supporting General Brand when the revolution comes?

  3. 8 and above.

    Well done! <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U88jj6PSD7w">Reward yourself with this intellectually nourishing tidbit.</a>Well done. Reward youself with this intellectually nourishing titbit.

 

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