Vernon God Little on Paradigm Shifts

Last year I read a very interesting book called Vernon God Little. The novel by DBC (Dirty But Clean) Pierre is about a young Texan, Vernon, who's best friend brings his (Vernon's) gun to school and kills most of his classmates and himself. Somehow, it still manages to be a commedy. Vernon struggles against the media who cast him as a young urban psychopath who infected an otherwise lovely town with hate and tragedy. In the following excerpt, a corrupt reporter tries to convince Vernon that he must "shift his paradigm" before it is too late. (umm.. warning explicit language? :P sorry)

"'Don't underestimate your general public, Vern–they want to see justice done, I say give them what they want.'

'But like– I didn't do anything.'

'Tch, and who knows it? People decide with or without the facts– if you don't get out there and paint your paradigm, somone'll paint it for you.'

'My what?'

'Pa-ra-dime, you never heard of the paradigm shift? Example: you see a man with your hand up your Granny's ass. What do you think?'

'Bastard.'

'Right. Then you learn a deadly bug crawled up there, and the man has in fact put aside his disgust to save Granny. What do you think now?'

'Hero.' You can tell he ain't met my Nana.

'There you go, a paradigm shift. The action doesn't change, the information you use to judge it does.'"

I think this excerpt draws a very helpfull if somewhat gross picture of a paradigm shift haha. Sadly, Vernon does not heed this advice and pays very dearly for it. I'm tempted to ruin the ending but I won't, so if you somehow have any time for liesure reading ( cough cough yeah right IB going insane lol ) this is an awesome book and I highly recommend it :)