This tribal attitude, however, plays right into the hands of academia and Shakespeare institutions who continue to brush aside as ridiculous or absurd any new information challenging the orthodox credence of Shakespeare being a glove maker's son.
And yet we have learned that the greatest damage is brain damage, not from accidents, but from: horrible thinking about neighbors, assuming the worst about others who you do not know, stereotypes, conspiracy theories, false information, absurd indoctrination passing for education, fatalistic and defeatist thinking about your own culture and society.
"The notion that he would put all that at risk to give a single friend inside information is absurd".
The modern world has so many actors, and issues are so complex, that the notion that bureaucrats have all the answers and information is absurd," he argued.
"The book is dead," "libraries are obsolete," and other absurd proverbial myths about the Information Age.
"Mr. Xie won't receive meaningful answers to his request for information because of absurd state secrets laws that trump regulations on open government," Mr. Walton predicted.
Even if the information is something absurd (e.g., Mickey Mouse or Britney Spears), they can still use it to scam people from countries who may not be aware of the absurdity.
He denied any attempt to exchange favours for information, and called the allegations "absurd".
We journalists were able to use generators and satellite dishes to access outside information, and what we saw was absurd.
Because the "progress" is gradual, we do not seem to notice as we accept what are increasingly absurd behavioral conventions and stretch the intelligence and information of underlying economic agents to levels that render them unrecognizable" (2010, 90).
The civil liberties argument I thought a little absurd – many well-functioning democracies have identity cards and the information stored [on them] is less than most supermarkets have".
