In spite of the severe conditions, government protection forces were able to control most of the fires and to keep them small. Planes and helicopters were of great value in bombing fires with chemicals, in transporting fire fighters, and in rescuing fire fighters. The schools must educate our children for the situations with which they will have to cope late in life. As the Roman Empire increased in size, it became necessary to find a way to move troops quickly from the capital to the outlining districts where rebellions needed to be quelled. For this purpose, great roads were constructed.
People tend to be more optimistic than rational.
Even wide experience with disappointment reduces only moderately our capacity for hopefulness as to the outcome of a problem. Large banks have computers that assist account managers to handle the accounts assigned to them. Instead of going through extensive files, the manager can see on a screen the complete investments of each account and finish working on it more quickly than before. Those who initially attempt to remedy some previously unnoticed wrong generally set forth straightforwardly and realistically to alter that which is objectionable. If their struggle is unsuccessful, later adherents to their cause, enthusiastically unperceptive, may become more vigorous and vociferous in their protestations, even though they fail to see so clearly just exactly what was originally in need of correction.