Haruyama's philosophy in fact is simply a more rational form of a very popular current wave of thinking in Taiwan--the individualism of Taiwan's socalled "new youth," who refuse to get involved in the public sphere and who extol the idea that "as long as it makes me happy, there's nothing wrong with it."
春山結合享樂與快感的論點，正為當前拒絕涉足公共領域，卻又標榜「只要我喜歡，有何不可以」的新人類個人主義論調找到合理化的基礎。