It was really an absurd spectacle.

Sounds like a ridiculous question, but it really is all about who is the boss.

Some of the proposals we considered were so absurd they were comical.

Nor am I who you think I am, he thought of protesting, but why should he, when he had long ago made the decision not to defend himself against this ridiculous world?

But human culture and belief systems are mealleable, and we can, with enough propaganda and reinforcement of others, be persuaded to believe almost any absurd idea.