Oh, I know! I know! What is "cognitive dissonance"?
When people are constantly barraged with reports of one crisis after another, many respond by withdrawing from reality. Psychologists call the condition "cognitive dissonance," or "cognitive disassociation."
That is correct. We would also have accepted "What is hypocrisy?" Or "Who are the biggest lying freakin' hypocrites on God's greed earth?"