2. Patterns, standards of behavior, and trends are paradigms. When change alters patterns we have a “paradigm shift”. Looking at the past 10-50 years, identifying signals in social patterns, in demographics, we can identify 3 major paradigm shifts occurring now and farther into the 21st Century. These are not political changes. These are not related to any one government, or any one party. These changes are about the numbers, only. It’s impossible to ignore the numbers.