Yet another BIP metaphor: Ruts and Slopes.

[Verbal Mike]

Why not?

[Rococo Modem Basilisk]

And a memebomb is designed to propel people out of ruts and/or change the topology of the map?

If a rut leads to a tour of all the peaks, perhaps in forking directions, why couldn't a rut make you seek peaks? It would just be a rut in a different (though, oddly related in terms of direction) map than the peaks.

In fact, why not have an overlay of entirely different maps? The directional changes are the same between all the maps, and the "ruts" are sort of a composite depth based on the relative depth of said point on all the maps, including some shared maps. If you are in the neocon rut on the political map, you're more likely to be in the evangelical christian rut on the religious map and the anti-abortion rut on the morality map. Or something.