Mothers of the Disappeared

The best people and ideas are obviously dead, now.
But much as powerful American corporations evolve, beyond U.S. decline, we survivors—those who can kill without obvious insanity—will remain as unwitting Mothers to that which we have disappeared.

http://www.pbs.org/pov/nostalgiaforthelight/full.php
http://www.extraenvironmentalist.com/2012/10/28/episode-52-market-monsters/