Wang Fan-sen, an academician at the Academia Sinica, points out that as Taiwan's society has grown increasingly democratic, its intellectuals have lost their passion. But now "the era of irresponsibility is past!"
中研院院士王汎森指出，台灣社會民主化了，知識分子的熱情卻減退了，但是展望未來，「不負責任的時代已經過去了！」