If satire exists to provoke moral reform in HL Mencken's formulation, 'To comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable' then the muddying of the distinction between 'real' and 'fake' can only be conceived of as a perversion of satiric justice.
"We are very happy about voices of criticism, the art exists to provoke, to make people think," The Krasnals told HuffPost.
The idea that anything should exist merely to provoke drooling adulation for its maker is, of course, absurd.
But Rushdie's shock omission appears every year, more or less, whether he has written a novel or not; a Martian might imagine that the entire literary establishment exists purely to provoke him.
Indications exist that a certain exposure duration might be necessary to provoke an effect [ 11].
Where it does not exist, they will seek to provoke it.
External elite-level factors exist when governments make decisions to provoke conflicts in weak neighbouring states for political, economic, security, or ideological reasons, leading to Brown's label "bad neighbors".
Be careful not to provoke.
Other vaccines using different ways to provoke an immune reaction exist, but none are as far along in clinical trials.
Not only do most allergens exist as numerous different isoforms with varying potencies to provoke allergic reactions 15, 16, but the existence of homologous allergens in related species also adds complexity to the analysis of development of human IgE repertoires.
Many fights can be avoided by not provoking or doing anything to provoke your attackers.
