The living is the new born child who is replaced by the dead which is the identity. Our given identity is ‘who’ we are authorised to be in the jurisdiction in which our birth is registered. Like a dog that is has been domesticated the child effectively falls into a trance when the given identity takes its place. This perspective is ‘educated’ to generically perceive reality. Why? The collective perception is what sustains what we define to be ‘reality’. If our collective mind stopped worshipping the ‘beliefs’ that define reality then that perceived reality would cease to exist.