2012: Skeptics vs Believers InformationIsBeautiful chart, published here with the kind permission of David McCandless
Our temporary limit for our timeline. Other end of the world prophecies will follow in the forthcoming years, and hopefully will fail. But the main difference between this prophecy and the others is that it is probably the first one that has grown first on the internet. Having a Hollywood blockbuster supporting the theory casts a suspicion on how manufactured all this issue might be. But that happens in all the cases presented before.
The validity or not of the 2012 prophecy is well explained in this chart, published here with the kind permission of David McCandless,so there is no need to explain it in-depth. You may find other links at the bottom of this post and make your mind up.
The questions I want to raise here are how do we look at the world, how media shape our perception of reality, and why these phenomena happen, now more than ever, in a global scale, mostly thanks to the internet.