the species has 8 billion we are alive now. Humanity divides that into intellectual typecast categories. Which we are you talking about besides you and I only 2 lifetimes within the 8 billion occupying space here in this atmosphere adapting to never exceeding the moment, now.
Energy cannot be created or destroyed while changing form and shape between has done, is doing, what total sum becomes next. You play pretend 24/7 yesterday, today, tomorrow and economics controls 72 hours 7 days a week, 12 months a year, every generation gap since Gregorian Calendar became the standard rule for space time in the modern New World Order of denying now is eternity and life only exists with ancestors occupying time eternally separated in their own skin now.
You are not Tom Hanks pretending to be Forrest Gump. Pretending to be anything other than all you were since conceived is flat out denying what you were since conceived and joining malcontents to make everyone else conform to your we the people command self deception be realities on the world stage of current events each generation here.