Definition - Paradigm

a paradigm is a frame work - a world view of how things work in an organized system. An example is the monetary system of the world, based on the economic theory of John Maynard Keynes, which is the current paradigm that people accept as a way of doing business. That model is falling apart, as we play and pretend to work. The next stage is chaos, whereby everything shuffles around until there is a new apparent order.