St John's revelations is a fantastic over the top fantasy which is easily ignored by many people who consider themselves to be intelligent. Yet not so intelligent to consider why, being curios, what does Revelations fantasy, last story in the bible about 4 horsemen and multi headed dragon mean?
Occasional documentaries at selective periods have mentioned that dragons are metaphors for war. According to a 1990s documentary, many ancient civilisations used dragons to warn war was coming. Shrek getting past a dragon to get to his women is a metaphor idea that men have to go through war before marriage and reproducing the next generation. The Revelations beast head was said to be the pope, and the remaining heads are his cardinals. If you turn the pope's and cardinals' hats 90%, the front view of the pope and cardinals will look like they are devils. No one told me this, I merely figured the images as a possibility.

You may believe ideas like the above shows I am on drugs, yet people who can't see similar ideas can't think about what they see and or can't consider new ideas as having plausible meanings. People who can't see similar ideas are stuck on prompted media distractions: sports; politics; religion.
I don't have to believe my Revelations theories are true because religious stories are made to manipulate believers into doing what priests want. Being aware of bible stories manipulating persuasions allows me to doubt media presented politics and finance news, believing most stories are inventions.

My purpose is to state that not everything people believe is true, that the media are doing much the same as religion has done for 2,500 years. When radio and particularly television entered society, religion became less spoken about in daily society. Colour television practically wiped out churches. Small churches being closed and sold off. Religion would seem is not about god as god is a tool of distraction and manipulation.

To me, religion and politics is about keeping populations distracted from real social issues like mental depression. Educational mental stress traumatising children, I believe is the main cause of: mental depression; drug addiction; alcoholism; poor labour skills leading to crime and other violent behaviours. A Radio National Life Matters guest speaker in 1999 told listeners in clearly spoken English, “Ruling classes are fearful of losing control over populations”. My continued short version is: populations being aware of many social problems as some religious ideology natural selection, keeping populations distracted, dumb down with drugs, sex, politics and religions.

John Lennon's “Working Class Hero” 1970 song words supports the last paragraph.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsmQhbd1KWE

I suspect people reluctant to believe my readings will avoid listening to and or reading John Lennon's “Working Class Hero” lyrics.

Society with many computer management advances doesn't need increasing school leavers' labours. Slow change using democracy distraction, allows change for the worst to be excepted. Eventually supermarket checkout attendants will be required to have a university degree. Learning to have: a good smile, pleasant attitudes learnt to counter high school attitudes. Slow change, Google “frog in slow boiling water” analogy, people unable to think follow everyone else's acceptance of how things work. As society doesn't need increased labours, holding teenagers and young adults in school, students competing with each other with no monetary rewards, for future employment is excepted because governments are believed to be democracies. How Dumb Are People? Answer: Because people are educated to keep themselves dumb!

One day, Naplan and or Australian test score results, world low ranking comparisons are going to be used as an excuse to increase year 12 HSC examinations to year 13. Apparently year 10 school certificate has been replaced.

Coalition to abolish year 10 school certificate.
http://www.smh.com.au/national/education/coalition-to-abolish-year-10-certificate-20110803-1ibos.html

In the above website reading, reasons given are that employers believe, “the school certificate no longer meets expectations of employers”.

I believe the opposite exists, where computer technology removes employers need for intelligent employees, only requiring zombie intelligence labourers. Exampling checkout bar code swiping.
Education can become more mentally stressful in order to punish human curiosity and an ability to doubt what is believed.
Comparing school education with Japan and Korea should include higher teenage suicide rates. Already, major cause of death, ages 14 to 44 are stated recently as suicide. Government solutions are a phone suicide “lifeline”, manned by volunteers.

Further readings: education kills curiosity; hurried thinking. A problem exists, that reading useful thinkable readings has worthwhile information fogged up with curiosity punishing personal experiences and not getting to a point long drawn out readings, I believe are used to frustrate readers. I can only suggest, the existence of a persuasive title is convincing enough.

Whoo Hoooo! Stevie. What a ride. Thanks mate, it was great stuff. Did you see the dragon in the kitchen too, beautiful colour eh?

While I was there I asked Patmos Johnno why he was sent to Patmos. He said that he had defrauded the Treasury, twice & was planning his next big job when the let him off the Island. I asked him if he knew the Apostle John he said no as he had died about 100 years before. Patmos Johnno said he'd found an old Persian story & was translating it in to Christian to fill in the time. He said he was thinking of calling it the Apocalypse. What a buzz.

No that was John Lennon doing the HSC as cannon fodder.

The CIA think they are God. All the wars are created by human greed, religion (?), power, and more too numerous to list. War is mans excuse for murder. What more can be said.