Viral Stupidity (Book)

The Avoidance Pandemic

Viral Stupidity, The Avoidance Pandemic

Last Call To Stop Not Giving a F*ck, And Save The World From Ourselves.

by Daniel Chris, 2026 (release date: 02/24/26)

We didn’t get stupid by accident.
We got here by avoiding.

Viral Stupidity names the psychological and cultural breakdown spreading through our world — a collapse of coherence caused by a contagious reflex to avoid discomfort, repair, and truth. What looks like polarization, numbness, or “cancel culture” is really a nervous system in collective shutdown.

This is the age of Evitism — the normalization of avoidance.

We’ve learned to call escape “clarity,” performance “connection,” and disengagement “peace.”
But beneath it all, our shared nervous system — the living web of attunement that makes culture work — is fragmenting.

The Central Idea

Every civilization has an operating system. Ours is failing. Not because of technology or ideology, but because of avoidance. When individuals and institutions stop repairing, coherence breaks down. That disconnection scales — from relationships to teams, from organizations to governments, from ecosystems to the biosphere.

Viral Stupidity maps that collapse like a contagion, showing how unprocessed emotional pain becomes social dysfunction and environmental collapse.

The Framework

As the first book rooted in Collective Neuro Theory™ (CNT), Viral Stupidity explains how the same processes that regulate an individual nervous system also govern collective ones:

• Regulation → Resonance → Repair → Integration.

When those loops fail, we lose access to clarity, empathy, and collective intelligence. When they’re restored, coherence becomes contagious again, and sanity becomes social, not just personal.

What “Viral Stupidity” Means

“Viral Stupidity” doesn’t mean people are cognitively dumb. It means our systems — educational, digital, political, relational — are operating below the level of coherence. When the social body loses the ability to feel, reflect, and repair, intelligence itself fragments.

The result:

• Smart individuals, stupid systems.

• Information overload, meaning collapse.

• High performance, low presence.

• Boundaries without repair

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Why It Matters

This isn’t another hot take on social decay. It’s an invitation to reframe “mental health,” “leadership,” and “culture” as biological coherence problems.

When we regulate better, we think better.
When we repair faster, we evolve faster.

Viral Stupidity exposes the biology of cultural breakdown — and offers the repair protocols that make coherence viral again.

The Bigger Picture

The book bridges psychology, neurobiology, and culture design. It shows how every scale of life — from a single nervous system to the global biosphere — follows the same principles of connection and regulation.

Viral Stupidity is both diagnosis and roadmap:
the biology of collapse and the blueprint for collective repair.

In One Sentence

Viral Stupidity is the cultural operating manual for a civilization that wants to live — a call to end Evitism, restore coherence, and reclaim the human nervous system as the source of collective intelligence.
Based on Collective Neuro Theory (CNT) — the framework that treats culture as a living nervous system.

Learn more:

• Explore the CNT framework → theCNT.org

• Understand Evitism, the root pattern of avoidance → Evitism.org

• Get the book → Viral Stupidity: The Avoidance Pandemic: → DanielChris.com/Viral-Stupidity

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