We'll know the paradigm shift was for real when the water starts boiling, the egg cracks and the daisies bloom...:

'Picture an egg just sitting there. No one pays it much attention until, one day, the egg cracks open and out jumps a chicken. From outside the egg, it looks like a sudden change. From the chicken's point of view, it was evolution, growth and development. The cracking of the egg was just the next step. In metamorphosis, there is no "one big thing". In going from good to great, the process is cumulative, gradual, and without fanfare.'

'Leave a kettle of water sitting at room temperature, and the water will retain its liquid form for weeks. But increase the flow of energy through the kettle by putting it on a hot stove and, within minutes, you'll induce a phase transition in the water, transforming it into gas.

Take a field of tall meadow buttercups accustomed to nightly frost and ten hours of sun, then raise the temperature 30 degrees and add four hours of sunlight. After a month or so, your field will be golden yellow. A linear increase in energy can produce a nonlinear change in the system that conducts that energy.'

There are a lot of people increasing the energy that is flowing into the system.