United States of Borg - the meme spreads

[kevyn]

A decade ago, while on Semester at Sea, I wrote a piece (I guess you could call it a poem) about Globalization, titled "The United States of Borg."

Today, I received an email from the copyright coordinator at the Ministry of Education in Alberta, asking to reprint it in some courseware they are producing. I gladly told them yes, under a Creative Commons license, if they would send me a copy of the courseware when completed.

It seems I have made a mark on the world. The United States of Borg has turned out to be the most successful meme I have ever created, having been reprinted or quoted several times: here, here, here, and here.

You know, I always wanted to be a footnote!

Comments

[baxil.livejournal.com]

That's well-written*. I can see why it spread.

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* I initially wrote "That's pretty good!" but was afraid of being misinterpreted. What the poem describes is emphatically not in the "pretty good" category.

[kevynjacobs.livejournal.com]

Thank you!