Definition:

Cognitive dissonance refers to a situation involving conflicting attitudes, beliefs or behaviors. This produces a feeling of mental discomfort leading to an alteration in one of the attitudes, beliefs or behaviors to reduce the discomfort and restore balance.

Example:

when people smoke (behavior) and they know that smoking causes cancer (cognition), they are in a state of cognitive dissonance.

What a stupid example that is hanging together with non-sequitur-s.

However, differences between beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors CAN cause so much tension that behavior is manifested through dis-ease or aberrant acts.

And Ezekiel does not describe cognitive dissonance but rather it seems to describe cognitive impairment. However, they are handicapable!