I don't know what is real any more

I think it is great that the special effects these days are so advanced that I have trouble distinguishing what is real and what is fake. You may think, "Well I knew that King Kong in the new Peter Jackson movie was not real." Well, what about the Skull island or the 1930s New York skyline? Certainly not all of it could be real, but can you really distinguish reality from special effects, especially when everything is moving so quickly? I bring this up because I saw some Superbowl commercials (I didn't watch the actual game because I was working and I didn't have a vested interest in either team). One of the better commercials is shown below:

Hulu's Superbowl Commercial - Ma-Tvideo France2
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At first you may think that this is quirky, unexpected and funny (situational irony as you might call it in English). But don't you think that its kind of scary how quickly people just shrug it off and assume its fake. Remember when they first read the War of the Worlds over the radio and everyone thought aliens were attacking. Well, even if aliens were attacking today, I don't think anyone would believe them anymore. I could imagine the following situation happening:

person A: Dude, what the hell is that on TV?

person B: Looks like an alien, man.

Alien: My name is !!aaarchnoo (waves arms up in a sweeping motion) and I come from Uranus. Who is your leader? We will not harm you is you comply with our demands.

person A and B: Did the alien just say he came from Uranus? Hahaha!

person A: This commercial is going on way too long. Change the channel.

person B: Oh, that's right. American Idol is on tonight (switches channels).

See, in my imagined but not so unlikely situation, no one would actually believe aliens were invading. Even if the aliens were able to convince us, they would have a hard time intimidating us. I mean, think of all the movies of us kicking alien ass (the Alien movies, Independence Day, Signs, War of the Worlds etc.). In this situation, I'm pretty sure most North American's wouldn't even sweat about it because they assume that when the time comes, Barrack Obama will just happen to know how to fly a fighter jet and that he will blow the alien mothership to kingdom come.