Print We are publishing essays all week from San Diegans about last week’s rioting by a mob incited by President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C. We must decide how to handle uncertainty Byron Harlan is a financial planner who lives in Little Italy. There’s something about the human mind that craves order. Patterns make people happy. Deviations can make them less so. Chaos breeds anxiety. Order makes people calm. That concept is a basic aspect of behavioral finance, but can apply to other areas of life, including the recent events in Washington, D.C. The breach at the Capitol Building caused people across the nation to experience distress, fear and panic. You could hear it in the voices of the many who called in to television and radio programs. There’s no denying that viewers and listeners were upset, scared and uncertain. The tragic deaths compounded the anxiety. It seemed as if a mob had taken control of the nation’s capital.