To the questions this scholar has raised, perhaps we should follow up with a question of our own: In Taiwan, where the sound of the crowd is already earsplitting, is it that the job of the intellectual has ceased to exist, or is it rather that "everyone has become an intellectual" so that we no longer need intellectuals per se?
接續院士的提問，我們或許還得追問：眾聲早已喧嘩的台灣社會裡，知識分子究竟業已消失，還是因為「人人都已是知識分子」，因此也不再需要知識分子？