Intellectuals who seek to escape the issues of today by withdrawing from problems of reality are not evading these problems. Lack of contact with the real world not only stalemates progress by preventing needed thinkers from contributing answers, it also starves intellectuals'
minds by denying them the stimulation of fresh experience.
Based on this passage, which individual would the author probably criticize the most?
01. a novelist writing about poverty and disease among miners
O 2. a scientist protesting pollution
O 3. a famous writer refusing to support a campaign to clean up his city
04. a soldier writing poems of protest about his experiences in war