Most people have never heard of “The Cobra Effect.” The story goes that during the British Colonial Era in India, there were excessive cobras infesting one of India’s largest cities. In an attempt to deal with the problem, the British authorities decided to pay a bounty for every cobra killed and turned in to authorities. But ironically, the problem didn’t get “better,” it actually got worse. Why? Because some people started taking advantage of this bounty by actually breeding cobras. When the authorities found out about this, they abruptly ended the program. The result of which was that all these breeders released all their cobras, and the problem, in the end, was worse than ever. So The Cobra Effect is a kind of human folly with serious consequences. What is Creator’s perspective?

You are designating that as a human folly. In actuality, in a world that is in divine alignment with people living according to moral principles, such a measure would be straightforward and highly successful. It is easy to blame the leadership as being naïve and not anticipating how some might take advantage and end up not only perpetuating the problem but creating a perverse worsening of things as it actually turned out to be. All about life is about balance, seeking a happy medium between the doable and the most effective so that a quick fix, that turns out to be a partial solution, is not the sole focus but also some deeper thought and effort to do the harder work of perhaps studying and then designing a long-term program that takes into account, in a more effective way, what can go wrong, including the variety of human behaviors that could complicate things or cause them to backfire in a serious way. This is a good example of the twin devils of government and individual folly that can grow in their influence and undermine the best of intentions about the most important of goals and needs of the culture for happy and successful living. The fact such things happen so routinely and are accepted with little question under the assumption it is the best one could hope for given the inertia of large institutions and the mammoth governmental body, and the gridlock in politics providing presumed oversight of things, is because the weaknesses in control are engineered to happen, and that is a missing piece here. What is not understood is that there is a massive manipulation of human thought and emotion to render people complacent, and that is a prescription for a slow and relentless downward spiral because people will simply not react, and certainly not rebel, even when things come under pressure and begin to erode. The biggest problem becomes that this complacency is engineered within the leadership. So even though your leaders have the responsibility, by definition, for seeing to the needs of society and making good decisions about policy, and taking pains to analyze and prioritize levels of need and urgency so the most important and critical things are taken care of first, and what can wait perhaps put on the back burner, so to speak, in actual practice what takes place is many frivolous and irrelevant goals are elevated in people's thinking. This is because the leadership has been manipulated to create a set of false ideals and goals, and redirecting the use of available resources and power towards implementing many make-work projects largely irrelevant to human welfare but sold as "a promising idea" while representing a false solution or even the addressing of a nonproblem to begin with. In today's world almost everything that is done, including what are touted as "signs of progress," especially anything technological, contain a poison pill of some kind that will eventually backfire, if only slowly and incrementally over time, such as with a shortening of lifespan, and will not be seen in time to prevent the damage.