KABOOM!

In the most recent reading, Parzival was approached by Sorrento, the head of the Sixers and a high ranking officer in IOI.  The Sixers were willing to kill Wade with tons of collateral damage (blowing up stacks of 20+ mobile homes is a lot of collateral damage).  This was after offering Wade millions of dollars for help getting through the first gate.  Since they are willing to spend that much, and a majority of the Egg is Halliday's fortune, they are looking for something else from GSS for finding the Egg first. The population as a whole blew off the explosion of a stack of mobile homes, just as Sorrento said they would, calling it either a meth-lab explosion or some idiot trying to build a bomb.  The fact that people would push off such explosions as commonplace suggests that the world has gotten to a point where in the real world, bombs and meth labs are normal in the slums, and are just one of the many problems with the world.  The OASIS, being an escape from this world only makes it worse, because those that live in the OASIS, would completely ignore such an explosion anyways, as it does not affect their lives.  Altogether, the world has gone to hell, and as more people start focusing on the OASIS, which the Scoreboard now having points on it makes even more prevalent, people are ignoring the disaster around them.