Mother Culture in the book is a personification of the world's culture, like a “mother” culture nurtures, feeds, and gives the tools to understand what is around us. The culture that we are surround by influences us on how we live our lives everyday. Mother Culture is the bad guy of this story, she is the leader of the Takers in a sense. Ishmael explains that Mother Culture teaches that Taker culture dismiss the old ways and would rather use a new faster way of living resulting in a culture that experiences a sort of forgetfulness. The narrator says it's perceived as a purely technological development, whereas Ishmael attests that it was much more than that. He says that “Mother Culture also teaches that life before the Agricultural Revolution
