Clean Slate Reactions to word of the coming cataclysms and Earth Transformation are always mixed, even within the same individual. Few view the thought of their comfortable living arrangements disappearing with joy, even if they consider their current life a burden. But as if often the case, the outcome is romanticized so that these discomforts are put to the rear, and the advantages of an upheaval brought forward.
Psychologists are aware that the more remote a situation, the less intense the person's response.
Extreme upheavals, where one imagines that the mundane job, the nagging wife, the annoying neighbor, and the lack of opportunity to change one's lifestyle are not only possible but probable , offer a chance to cast all these annoyances and burdens aside. The discomforts that the upheaval would bring are at a distance, thus less intense, but the disgruntlements of everyday life are up close and personal, and very intense. Thus, the upheaval is seen as advantageous, overall. In reality, the clean slate that the cataclysms will bring will carry forward, for most humans, the same baggage they carried going into the pole shift. This baggage is attached to the human themselves, and thus in all likelihood the same relationships will develop, the same commitments promised, the same avoidance of responsibility, the same conflicts with leadership, the same sexual inhibitions - all the old problems will establish themselves in a new setting.