If memetic content possesses gravity within information space, what can we learn from applying the insights of relativity to the memetic space?

First, let's classify traditionally centralized media outlets as centers of information gravity capable of curving memetic spacetime...

...which implies that in the traditional mass-media model of memetic propagation, something akin to Newtonian mechanics applies, in which minds settle into predictable and straightforward orbits around planetary bodies.

In such a world there exists no need to closely examine...

...the relationship between frames of reference, as the mechanics of the system conform to relatively predictable kinematic equations.

But what happens when we asymptotically speed up the rate of information propagation throughout the system, approaching some fixed upper bound?

Assuming the insights of relativity hold–admittedly a big if–we would expect to see a gravitational field emerge as the memetic velocity of a given piece of information propagating throughout the system approaches that system's upper bound.

But does everyone notice this gravity?

Here, it seems that insights from Special Relativity come into play, namely the concept of relativistic mass.

For those "riding the meme"–those within the meme's frame of reference–only the effects of acceleration (propagation) would be noticeable, not its increasing mass...

But much like a small object accelerated to extremely high speeds, the effects of this memetic structure would possess immense momentum if directed at a stable system whose occupants operated at lower speeds of memetic propagation.

Which takes us back to the mass media system...

We seem to have created–within the bowels of the Internet–a sort of memetic particle accelerator, capable of rapidly accelerating memetic content to information-relativistic speeds.

Yet unlike particle accelerators, the memes do not remain wholly contained within the system...

When this happens within a particle accelerator, it's known as a "quench event", which can destabilize and destroy the entire system, releasing immense amounts of destructive energy if left unstabilized.

It seems today that we're increasingly witness to "memetic quench events".

For example, the NPC meme was one of the first to thoroughly breach the containment fields established by social media platforms, puncturing into the wider Newtonian frame of reference with its immense relativistic mass.

Such event appear inexplicable from the Newtonian POV...

...giving rise to all manner of ex post facto rationalizations concerning what's going on.

We may furthermore extend the metaphor of relativistic frames to help us understand the process of political polarization under way, and how our new memetic accelerators contribute...

Consider the phenomena known in physics as "redshift", in which a light source moving away from an observer is shifted toward the red end of the EM spectrum.

Assuming we have two memetic accelerators that have begun to polarize, each will begin to see a distorted version of...

...the other's behavior. This "memetic redshift" will distort each group's perception of the other's internal state in proportion to the rate at which they're moving away from one another.

Additionally, to communicate with one another while accelerating away from one another...

...they're required to accelerate their packets of memetic exchange to increasingly higher energy states, thus making any memetic packet more difficult to receive without incurring damage–i.e. more weapon-like.

And thus we generate an increasingly volatile system of memetic...

...nucleation, whose containment mechanisms are increasingly overwhelmed, and whose memetic packets are beginning to tear through the perceptual landscape of those still operating under Newtonian assumptions.

Given that the keys to the memetic accelerators remain in the hands...

...of largely Newtonian operators, and that the vast majority of our economic and political systems remain governed by the path-dependent inertia of their Newtonian roots, we find ourselves caught within an increasingly unstable dynamic.

Of course, the first instinct of those...

...managing the accelerators is to either clamp down on these system's general capacity for acceleration, or selectively contain the sources of relativistic artillery tearing through the fabric of their Newtonian governance architecture.

Unfortunately for them, like all tech...

...the underlying technologies and templates necessary for building censorship-resistant accelerators (distributed computational networks) are already here, and becoming cheaper by the day.

As they say, the only way out is through, and at a grand scale this rings true...

...given that it doesn't seem like we'll ever get rid of said memetic accelerators, our best option remains to develop systems of sensemaking, governance, and economic exchange native to the relativistic domain, taking into account the issues above as Physics was forced to...

...take account of relativistic insights after Einstein's theories were proven.

Of course, this is an extended metaphor, and I'm by no means claiming it's the literal truth, but I also wouldn't be surprised to discover that there do exist such information-theoretic parallels...