I took an adult education course years back. For a writing assignment, I decided to interview a couple of Buddhist monks.
In one interview, we were chatting about some of the Buddhist hermits still in existence around the world.
I mentioned that they “weren’t really a part of the solution, now were they ?”
The monk I was interviewing replied, “Maybe not. But they are definitely not part of the problem.”
For those with absolutely no interest in politics, if they can do a fair job of ‘not being a part of the problem,’ then there’s a case to be made that … that’s enough.
But it takes a pretty fair understanding of at least a few societal things to reasonably gauge whether or not one is a ‘part of the problem.’