Nemotianih-moh-shah

n. The fear that you're utterly powerless to change the world around you, looking on helplessly at so many intractable problems out there--slums that sprawl from horizon to horizon, daily headlines of an unstoppable civil war, a slick of air pollution blanketing the skyline-- which makes the act of trying to live your own life feel grotesque and self-indulgent, as if you're rubbernecking through the world.