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I agree that there are times where inaction is the most powerful, or efficient thing that you can do. Absolutely. Hell, I've sidelined myself during several periods of my life where I realized that any action I'd take would only make things worse.
However, I don't think the movie shares our sympathetic view if strategic idleness. When Luke refused to train the Jedi, was it because he realized that the Jedi could flourish without his teaching? No. He sincerely thought the Jedi would end, without his help. Right? So Luke remained isolated in his vanity, assuming he had control over the fate of the Jedi when, as it turned out, he didn't. Jedi don't require his patriarchal teachings, thank you very much. His refusal to train other Jedi was futile, as he acknowledges at the end of the film.
Well, that is a more likely assessment considering how the rest of the film played out.
The point about powerful Jedi popping up out of nowhere without his input does emasculate him, taking away his reason to exist.
Yet, the feminists want him to come back when everything starts falling apart.