{"id":3916,"date":"2006-11-20T12:39:56","date_gmt":"2006-11-20T20:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/11\/20\/pop-culture-disconnect\/"},"modified":"2019-12-20T11:23:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T19:23:21","slug":"pop-culture-disconnect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/11\/20\/pop-culture-disconnect\/","title":{"rendered":"Pop Culture Disconnect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week in my History 101 class (covering everything up to 1500), we&#8217;re looking at Ghengis Khan, Kublai Khan, and the Mongols. The professor spent a few minutes talking about the Mongol&#8217;s invasion techniques, which were simple but could be fairly ruthless: if armies surrendered they&#8217;d be treated fairly well; if they fought, they&#8217;d often be razed to the ground and completely destroyed. After summarizing this, he commented, &#8220;really, they were pretty close to the Borg.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I chuckled, and there was a moment of quiet while he took a sip of his tea. Then one of the girls in the class slightly timidly asked, &#8220;&#8230;what&#8217;s &#8216;the borg&#8217;?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sigh. I&#8217;m getting old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The professor spent a few minutes talking about the Mongol&#8217;s invasion techniques, which were simple but could be fairly ruthless. After summarizing this, he commented, &#8216;really, they were pretty close to the Borg.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043,2047],"tags":[6,401,4097],"class_list":["post-3916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-star-trek","tag-humor","tag-nscc","tag-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}